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...going to put it out.”Both award-winning hurlers went the distance. Madick, the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, endured a hard line drive that drilled her left leg in the fourth to last 8 1/3 innings, allowing seven hits and a walk while striking out five. Lotti, who captured the same honor in the Colonial Athletic Association, improved to 23-4 on the year with a nine-inning, five-hit, eight-walk, 11-strikeout performance, allowing only two unearned runs. Lotti held the Crimson scoreless through six innings despite putting a runner on base...
Then, with the Pride down to its own last strike in the bottom half of the inning, Melissa Hodge took Crimson ace Shelly Madick deep to force extra frames...
Down to its final strike in its opening round NCAA Tournament game against host Hofstra, Harvard scored twice on a dramatic defensive miscue to seize a 2-1 lead...
...Eleven undergraduates began a nine-day hunger strike that ended last Friday after University administrators said they would soon publish an audit examining AlliedBarton’s compliance with Harvard’s Wage and Benefits Parity Policy. The policy requires outside contractors like AlliedBarton to pay their employees wages comparable to those received by in-house, unionized employees who perform similar jobs. Currently, in-house guards are paid 19 cents more than those contracted from AlliedBarton. But students are demanding that Harvard also mandate a “living wage” for the guards, which the SEIU sets...
Pressuring the University to intervene in stalled contract negotiations between subcontractor AlliedBarton and the security guards’ union, the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) called a “hunger strike,” and organized daily rallies in Harvard Yard. After two participating students had been hospitalized, the leaders abruptly ended this ritualistic nine-day forced-starvation last Friday, citing that the University had consented to “two key student demands.” In a vain attempt to save face, SLAM greeted these so-called concessions—to audit AlliedBarton and subsequently to meet...