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Unfortunately, PSLM seems determined not to learn from its mistakes. The focus of DiMaggio’s op-ed was not higher wages, but the struggle for a “more just and democratic University and society,” in which students and workers would have far more influence. But at the moment, it’s entirely unclear how much democratization PSLM wants, or how much it would settle for. The call for student representatives on the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, will encounter far more official opposition than the living wage...
...victim of its own success; soon almost all Harvard workers will be making well above the sit-in standard of $10.25 an hour, even accounting for inflation. Yet the group can’t simply declare victory. Throughout its campaign, the group steadily avoided any clear explanation of which wages are just and which are “disgusting”—and the point has been forced, now that wages are high enough for some workers to accept them. Debates over $11 versus $14 don’t lend themselves to protest signs, and the rhetorical muddle...
...question. Citizens should have a voice in their government’s decisions, but Harvard isn’t the government. It’s a private institution, and a thriving civil society requires that private institutions be allowed to choose their own ends. One member of the living wage campaign has suggested that Harvard employees should participate in shaping its mission, in part because they are profoundly affected by the University’s decisions; but citizens of Cambridge and Boston are also affected by Harvard’s actions, as are other universities nationwide. Representation is an either...
...students to answer them. Yet even if Harvard’s governance could use a rethinking, the rethinking must take place on the same scale as the original design. It’s not enough to point to current political debates; today’s students support a living wage, and today’s Corporation does not. What matters is whether over the long run—the 300-year-long run—the new structures will better represent the interests of the University than the old. As former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky reportedly told...
From hip-hop confusion to bouncy-slide wage disputes, the Undergraduate Council has run into a series of snags as they plan their first Springfest with co-sponsorship by the Office of the President...