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...McKean] to sway on that...wouldn't make much sense," Smith says...
...white-hot job market that held sway last October, PricewaterhouseCoopers launched a spirited talent hunt. It extended lucrative offers to a score of business and economics majors at Rutgers University in New Jersey who were eager to embark this summer on careers with the big accounting and consulting firm. Some of them will be heading for the beach instead. The company has postponed their corporate debuts until next January. Says a senior: "We were gearing up to start our jobs, and then this letter came. But at least they're not laying...
...major university policy, for example, or to send public safety warnings, as many Houses do. This e-mail, however, strikes me as more akin to a personal position statement, making use of resources not available to the other side of the living wage debate in an attempt to sway student opinion. That seems less like a Harvard University Police Department alert and more like Rudenstine sending us his endorsements for local congressional races, informing us of a special deal on Franklin Mint commemorative plates, or helping us to get rich quick. That our president decided to make his side...
...this is complicated by the fact that in two months’ time, Harvard will have a new president and a new administration. President-elect Lawrence H. Summers has never publicly 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...
...will help the administration separate the cause of the living wage from the tactics chosen in this protest. The University is no doubt concerned with setting an uncomfortable precedent by giving in to coercive measures. However, we sincerely hope that non-disruptive efforts and increased public awareness will eventually sway the administration to do right by its workers...