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Since then, SAS activists have been meeting regularly with University Attorney Allan A. Ryan and have scored several other victories, says Hennefeld--including a tentative commitment-in-principle to a living wage for sweatshop workers and a faculty and student advisorycommittee to be established this summer. However,in other areas of negotiation, SAS has beendisappointed by the University's response...
...Faculty voted to dismiss D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, who pled guilty to the charge of indecent assault in the fall of 1998. The students called for "justice"--a cry that united activists from the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), the Coalition Against Sexual Violence and the Living Wage Campaign. Earlier that week, the University publicly endorsed "full disclosure" of the locations of factories where Harvard apparel is made, partially assuaging PSLM's demands...
...Living Wage Campaign held another rally--featuring speakers Cornel R. West '74 and Cambridge Vice Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio--as part of its continuing efforts to convince Harvard to adopt a $10 minimum "Living Wage" for all University workers. Though the rally did not produce any guarantees from the administration, it did show the increased presence of the campaign, which had obtained the support of about 100 faculty members and the support of a Cambridge City Council ordinance. "This is the most significant wave of student activism since the 1960s," West said. "It shatters the stereotypes that young students...
...typical week would see bills endorsing the Living Wage Campaign and improved privacy on the Harvard network on one hand, or a proposal to research new designs for the Harvard College Web page and a declaration that students have free speech rights in public arenas on the other...
During the debate of the Living Wage Campaign bill, Bradley L. Davis '00 said the issue "does not belong in this body whose purpose is to represent student concerns.... It is not proper for this body to consider questions of justice...