Word: administrationã
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...against the backdrop of a two week standoff in which the current administration??s unwillingness to engage in substantive and balanced dialogue with the student body has been shamefully exposed and openly critiqued, the anomalousness of having been offered a seat at the future president’s table was striking. Somewhat heartened, but equally perplexed I found myself wondering whether this type of event was just the type of discourse that students have been asking...
...been randomization, the withering away of Radcliffe, the anti-sweatshop campaign and now the living wage. The year before I arrived, a rally to save the Phillips Brooks House Association drew many hundreds—the majestic photograph sits in PBH now, where, just as those people feared, the administration??s Assistant Dean for Public Service now has her office. The House Masters of the pre-randomization era have left; only a handful of people on the entire campus lived in the Houses in the time of reputation and application...
...arguments that support the living wage but condemn the sit-in and the PSLM’s tactics have focused on the sit-in as an ineffective means. The Crimson, for one, believes the PSLM should leave because its tactics are “more likely to harden the administration??s resolve” than accomplish the goal of $10.25 per hour plus benefits. Perhaps, but that’s still not the issue...
Students elected to the Undergraduate Council often expect to endure their classmates’ ridicule and the administration??s cold shoulder. What they don’t expect to endure is several thousand dollars in personal credit card debt. Personal debt, however, is exactly the predicament that council members Trisha S. Dasgupta ’03 and Robert M. Gee ’02 currently face. In February, Dasgupta and Gee doled out $600 and $1300, respectively, in order to cover over-budget costs of a Harvard-sponsored summit of the Ivy Council—an umbrella organization...
...treasury secretary, Summers supported the Clinton administration??s increases in the minimum wage because he recognized that workers deserve a wage that allows them to stay out of poverty. In a May 1996 speech in New Orleans, Summers—then deputy treasury secretary—told his audience that a raise in the wage was necessary to ensure that “while America competes better and enjoys greater prosperity, no Americans slip through the cracks.” These standards apply even more stringently to Harvard. The University is a non-profit that invests...