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...address student demand. FLO exists because there are consumers in the world who are willing to pay more for the peace of mind caused by the knowledge that the products they buy are produced responsibly. Harvard students should make a stand for sustainable development, a living wage and workers?? rights in banana-growing Third World countries by demanding Fair Trade bananas. Just as Harvard’s adoption of Fair Trade coffee spurred other colleges to do the same, our adoption of Fair Trade bananas could have a huge effect on widening Fair Trade’s niche...
...first-year advising that inspired the report’s plan is legitimate. But a few simple changes could do more to remedy this situation without hurting student life. First, Harvard should acknowledge that first-years often learn most from their peers. Instead of placing grad students and office workers??some of whom were never undergraduates at Harvard—in the first-year dorms, the College should use those prime proctor suites to house undergraduates who can help first-years cope with the difficulties that they so recently experienced. If the Yard had one proctor per dorm...
There are reforms for which the administration should be commended this year—joining the Workers?? Rights Consortium, conceding the need for compensation caps and reducing the contributions required of students from low-income families...
During a speech on the value of negotiations and persistence by Danny Meagher, president of the Harvard University Security, Parking and Museum Guards Union, a student member of the Workers?? Vanguard shouted out that the group had no business taking part in the labor rally...
...Security is no friend of the workers?? union,” he said. “We think it’s really outrageous that these agents of the capitalist state are being treated as fellow workers. Their inclusion is a knife into the heart of organized labor...