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...have extra hours.” Katherine A. Hasty ’07 said she prefers to tutor only those students with whom she has developed a rapport. She said she started tutoring because of a love of writing and discussing politics, not for the $12-an-hour wage. So, apart from the core group she tutors, Hasty said she generally will not answer e-mail requests for tutors. “I tend to stick more with people I’ve been working with all term and have built up a relationship with,” Hasty said...
AFTER KATRINA, DID YOU TRY TO LOBBY THE PRESIDENT AGAINST SUSPENDING THE DAVIS-BACON WAGE LAW, WHICH REQUIRES FEDERAL CONTRACTORS TO PAY THE LOCAL PREVAILING WAGE? The President and the Administration were most concerned with helping this region recover as quickly as possible. So the Administration wanted to cut through the red tape and the bureaucracy that would impede assistance to this devastated region...
...student body, it appears, will willingly grant the University administration tyrannical authority—so long as it agrees to give us a 24-hour library and a student pub. The University Council’s (UC) recent decision to support Harvard’s custodial workers in their wage negotiations with the University has drawn an irate and indignant response from several student organizations claiming that the council has transgressed its mandate by addressing a political issue. This issue, however, is one in which the student body should expect, even demand, that the UC involve itself. The UC?...
...variables besetting her viability as a candidate—including, Morris admits, her intimacy with the Bush administration and its (lack of) progress in the Iraq war. It’s possible that the distinguished secretary of state and the accomplished New York senator would be too dignified to wage a catfight. But if they find themselves head-to-head in ’08, it looks like Morris will do enough eye gouging and hair pulling for the both of them. —Staff Writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached at nsherman@fas.harvard.edu...
...When political activism does occur on campus it is wishy-washy and bland. Even the most radical elements of the student body, such as the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), are surprisingly tame by historical standards. Instead of appealing to socialist notions of equality in their quest for higher wages, they couched their stance in terms of cost of living and prevailing wage rates. And in lieu of occupying Mass. Hall, they sent workers’ children to Larry Summers’ house on Halloween to ask for money for their families—only to realize that...