Word: wage
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Activism. After hitting rock-bottom in returning grapes to the dining halls and rejecting a "political" role for the Undergraduate Council, the student body seems to be reawakening to the need for activism. The living wage movement has real momentum, Harvard has begun to listen on sweat-shop reform and progressives are making noise again on the council, despite the backward vote on the Reserve Officer Training Corps. Verdict: Better...
According to University Professor Cornel R. West '74, "[Harvard's Living Wage Campaign] is the most significant wave of student activism since the 1960's. It shatters the stereotypes that young students are not concerned with what is right and just." Students have organized and participated in rallies and campaigns to eradicate poverty wages at Harvard because, according to the Harvard Living Wage Campaign web site, "you can't eat prestige." But even if it can't proffer the nourishment that a living wage could, it still never hurts to have prestige on your side...
Last week, almost 100 Harvard University faculty members made it clear to President Neil L. Rudenstine and Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 that the battle for a Harvard Living Wage could no longer be regarded as a student movement but rather as a community-based effort. Each signature on the open letter supporting the Living Wage Campaign brings the movement a step closer to the prestige and legitimacy--and ultimate it deserves...
...University has yet to respond to the open letter, we are eager to hear what Rudenstine and the new Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies have to say. We hope that especially after almost 100 faculty members signed their names in support of a $10 an hour minimum wage, the University takes the efforts of those pressing the issue and signing the petitions seriously...
...noted that University lawyers were already meeting with members of the PSLM when March's rally took place, and an inter-faculty task force is currently looking at the Living Wage Campaign's requests...