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...comes to campus issues, the ideological divide is even starker. The March 12 edition of the fortnightly paper provides an account of why Harvard should ignore the genocide in Sudan, dubbing the campus divestment efforts a “sham.” Despite The Salient’s claim, conservatives do care about the killing in Sudan; in fact, the Harvard Republican Club has been a supporter and signatory to the Sudan Divestment initiative since last year.On a pragmatic level, however, The Salient has digressed into a status at Harvard that garners little to no respect. The paper...
...protesters’ demands center around the claim that AlliedBarton guards do not earn wages comparable to other workers at Harvard or their peers at other institutions...
Opponents to the hunger strike claim that the situation is not dire enough to warrant such a measure. There are, of course, human rights violations across the globe of far greater gravity than the situation of security officers at Harvard...
...just because there are worse injustices, it does not mean we should not take action in situations where we can actually exert influence. And to claim that a security officer does not deserve to be paid a living wage because he can sit down on the job—or even do something as audacious as read a book—is unfair...
...American would find baffling, the so-called “right-wing” Sarkozy proposes to introduce desperately needed affirmative action programs to France (hitherto unknown in this welfare state) while the “socialist” Royal vigorously opposes them. Sarkozy’s opponents claim that his platform is “brutal” and that it will rend the French social fabric. Depressingly, French youth (especially those in the banlieues who would particularly gain from his fresh approach), seem the most susceptible to these arguments and are the most passionately aroused...