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...Living Wage Campaign held another rally--featuring speakers Cornel R. West '74 and Cambridge Vice Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio--as part of its continuing efforts to convince Harvard to adopt a $10 minimum "Living Wage" for all University workers. Though the rally did not produce any guarantees from the administration, it did show the increased presence of the campaign, which had obtained the support of about 100 faculty members and the support of a Cambridge City Council ordinance. "This is the most significant wave of student activism since the 1960s," West said. "It shatters the stereotypes that young students...
Academically, Goff originally intended to study math and physics, but he decided that mathematical questions were not the ones he wanted to be answering. ("I didn't want to be the black math/science guy," he quips.) Instead, he enrolled in a graduate seminar with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 as a first-year, and after dabbling in gender studies, found his place as an Afro-American studies concentrator. He will head to Stanford next year to begin a Ph.D. in social psychology...
...like having a wonderful small liberalarts college within a larger University. Cornel islike a father, Bill a kind uncle, and Evelyn likemy mother, always kicking me to get in gear," Goffsays. "They are the reason I'm still here. If I doanything of worth it is a credit to my mentors.They take very seriously both their responsibilitytoward students and toward the outside community...
Organizers said they still hope that FletcherUniversity Professor Cornel R. West '74 willspeak, but he was on a flight late last night andcould not be reached by protesters...
Student and Faculty speakers will then address the assembled crowd at the counter-Commencement. Lecturer on Women's Studies Juliet B. Schor will be speaking. Organizers have also approached Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74; Warburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith; and Professor of Law Lani Guinier...