Word: summersã
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...shadow of this legacy that Summers will enter office, and it is against Rudenstine’s dismal record that he will be judged. With the living wage campaign having successfully put the spotlight on dialogue, Summers?? willingness to talk may make or break his administration...
...trips to campus over the past two months, Summers?? actions have been encouraging. His recent visits to the Annenberg and Lowell House dining halls as well as his discussion with the Undergraduate Council and last Sunday’s dinner with new members of Phi Beta Kappa all represent a willingness to get to know the student body and to solicit student opinion. However, Summers?? actions to date are by no means sufficient to bridge the student/administration rift that currently divides our campus...
Moreover, if Summers is to foster a community of dialogue, his interaction with students cannot stop once his administration settles into Mass Hall. If, five months or five years down the road Summers?? recent outreach is to be thought of as more than a Hillary Clinton listening tour, then these whistlestops must be followed up by a sustained effort to engage in substantive discussion with the student body. Summers has already stated that he will hold office hours, but he must do so more frequently than Rudenstine; an hour a week for conversing with students...
...expressed his views on a living wage at Harvard, and the protesters’ efforts to sway the current administration are handicapped somewhat by Rudenstine’s status as a lame-duck president. The Rudenstine administration is no doubt hesitant to saddle its successor with a decision, and Summers?? views on the subject will make the current discussion almost moot come July. Summers should therefore take the opportunity afforded by this campus discussion to review the University’s wage structure and to commit to the principle of a just wage for all of Harvard?...
...treasury secretary, Summers supported the Clinton administration’s increases in the minimum wage because he recognized that workers deserve a wage that allows them to stay out of poverty. In a May 1996 speech in New Orleans, Summers??then deputy treasury secretary—told his audience that a raise in the wage was necessary to ensure that “while America competes better and enjoys greater prosperity, no Americans slip through the cracks.” These standards apply even more stringently to Harvard. The University is a non-profit that invests...