Word: campaignã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...power to operate at Harvard without acknowledging the principle that people deserve a living wage. Our community has a responsibility to treat all its members decently, and we have told the people who thought they led our community that they must do that. Everyone in the Harvard Living Wage Campaign??workers, students, faculty, alumni, area residents—said no to indecent treatment, and to poverty wages. We said stop...
...presidential search committee of 1991 was attracted to Rudenstine’s progressive vision of uniting the University, but they also brought him to Harvard for a more imperative purpose. Harvard needed money-and fast. Enter the first-ever University-wide Capital Campaign??requiring a planning process that tied the various faculties together as never before. With the Faculty of Arts and Sciences running an operating deficit, fundraising was about to become everyone’s favorite pastime—and Rudenstine’s life...
...first hint of the true nature of the e-mail when I read the first line of the body text: “Contact, Joe Wrinn” University press-flack extraordinaire. The message—apparently sent to all undergraduates—criticizes the Living Wage Campaign??s Mass. Hall sit-in and describes the University’s position on employee pay. I was not the recipient of a special message from our illustrious leader. I was the victim of presidential spam...
...literacy and improve their job skills—but which also shot down a living wage. In the year-plus since, administrators have referred time and again to these moderate reforms as proof that they care. But they have also used them as a shield against the living wage campaign??s response that free museum passes and computer skills may be wonderful, but they don’t pay the rent...
...when pressed to explain what it actually costs to live in the area, they do not know. How can they make such a fuss about Harvard not paying enough when they do not even know what it costs to live in the area? Again, I believe that the campaign??s escalating actions despite haphazard understanding of the issues well illustrates the attitude that many would-be-supporters shy away from...