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...roots in Louisiana go back generations. Growing up in New Orleans, listening to people converse and watching them interact are what formed me. During his retirement, my father Lionel, a former construction worker turned short-order cook and janitor, would sit on his front porch on the corner of South Jefferson Davis Parkway and Baudin Street in the midcity section of New Orleans. There he could watch people leave early for work and children play across the street at Comiskey Playground. He greeted everyone who passed by. "Where ya at?" or "What's going on?" he would...
...efforts of common citizens around the world to fight appalling diseases in the poorest countries [Nov. 7] should be required reading for all. I especially recommend it to members of Congress. Instead of funding pork-barrel projects, why not finance completion of the malaria vaccine? As a health-care worker, I was astonished to read how far development of the vaccine has progressed. We have a golden opportunity to eliminate the disease...
...stirring spech into sign language was masterfully achieved by the show’s interpreters, who were actors in their own right, conveying the emotions and personalities of the characters with their body language as they interpreted the spoken words of the stage with their hands. When a lesbian worker named Kat, played by Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08, rebukes her would-be lover Poppy (Edward Hichez), the interpreter translating Kat’s part actually looked vividly angry while the interpreter translating Poppy’s part looked suitably pathetic. Later, when Kat described her sexual...
...UC’s pro-worker vote is a case in point of how student institutions can reflect and articulate the values so many students already hold close to them. The bill affirms the value of Harvard as a community, one that includes workers and their families...
Today, the Harvard janitors’ contract expires. The treatment, wages, and benefits that janitors currently receive are unjustifiable; with a new contract, Harvard has the opportunity to show workers, students, and the larger public that it cares about the living conditions of these important members of our community.Currently, employees at the bottom of Harvard’s income ladder work for meager wages. A minority of them receive full-time employment at Harvard. Many must work two or three jobs to support themselves and their families. Harvard’s wages compare poorly to those of its local peer...