Word: slams
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...first to highlight Harvard’s democratic deficit. Last spring, protestors in Harvard Yard representing the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) pointed towards Massachusetts Hall, which houses the University President’s office, and cried out, “This is what autocracy looks like,” and then, pointing towards themselves added, “this is what democracy looks like...
Petersen, SLAM, and the slew of student commentators with similar opinions have got one thing right: Harvard University isn’t very democratic. The majority of decision-making power at Harvard, as in most other universities, lies with a few appointed officials who are relatively insulated from student opinion...
...adapting the play, betrayed a carelessness bordering on contempt. The original is a two-act story that takes more than two hours; the new one synopsizes all that plot into the first hour, then adds a third act that diminishes, demeans, defames both the material and the actors. To slam home the theme of sexual aggression, Pinter forces one of the characters to dress in drag. Which makes Sleuth fit into the year's dominant trend, of movies from 300 to Blades of Glory, from Chuck and Larry to Superbad: guys channel their attraction or hatred for each other into...
Student protesters and union members gathered yesterday outside the Holyoke Center to protest the August firing of a Harvard library assistant who had been arrested for allegedly making terrorist threats in the Alewife T station. The rally was staged by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers. The groups have demanded that the University rehire the longtime employee, David S. Toomey, an assistant at the Harvard College Library’s technical services division. The groups said Harvard discriminated against Toomey, a 20-year library veteran who they said has a medical...
Last year, a group of Harvard undergraduates took part in a Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) hunger strike to protest the low wages Harvard independent contractor Allied Barton was paying campus security guards. There were some flaws with the movement—most notably, it seems a bit hard to justify forgoing food over objection to a slight difference in wages. But at least SLAM’s cause was concrete. In the case of this latest cause, the T-shirts are just about talking. If those sporting tees are interested in real change, they ought to find more effective...