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Remarks by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 infuriate the Black Student Association causing around 60 students to peacefully sit-in during one of his government class. The sit-in comes after Mansfield remarked that grade inflation started to increase after the influx of black students in the...
For three weeks in late April and early May, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) was the first topic of conversation on campus. “What do you think of the sit-in?” became a common question before class and during meals, and the controversy provoked...
Yet it was unfortunate that PSLM chose to diverge from its past tactics when it initiated the sit-in. Unlike the PSLM “occupation” of Byerly Hall last spring, which sought to raise awareness of the living wage without interfering with registration for Pre-Frosh Weekend...
The composition of the committee, chaired by Professor of Economics Lawrence Katz, is another positive outcome of the sit-in. By including student representatives on the committee as full members, Harvard recognized that students have an important role to play in issues relating to the University as a whole. Harvard...
The enormous outpouring of community support during the sit-in should be seen as a mandate to assist the workers and their unions in their fights for better wages and working conditions. Indeed, the most important consequence of the sit-in may not be the formation of the new committee...