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...mouths. Hopefully we can see some more enlightened leadership in the future.” Harvard’s offer of early retirement may be perceived as coercive by workers who feel pressured by the possibility of layoff, said Stephen A. Helfer, a support staff member at Harvard Law School library. “I ask the City Council to use its influence to urge that everybody at the University take a pay cut according to his or her ability, starting with Drew Faust,” he said. Director of Higher Education at the Service Employees International Union Wayne...
Harvard’s restoration of three old mansions on the Harvard Law School campus in 2007 drew the Cambridge Historical Commission’s Preservation Award last Thursday, lending a dose of prestige to the aged structures where 26 Law School students currently reside. The award, bestowed annually for historically accurate restorations of Cambridge-area houses, recognized the Law School’s work on a trio of 19th-century Victorian mansions, which were updated and moved 150 yards from their original sites to make way for the school’s Northwest Corner Project—a construction...
...yesterday morning, nine subcontracted custodians tried to clock in for work at Harvard Medical School. Although their layoffs were effective last Friday, the custodians showed up for their normal shifts, ready to work, as part of staged protest.More than 25 Harvard undergraduates, law students, medical students, and union members escorted the workers through the back entrance to Gordon Hall where they were met by security and administrators who told the protestors that they had three to four minutes to exit the building.“We’re from American Cleaning, and we want to work...
Although Frank was met with resounding applause at the conclusion of his talk, there were several tense moments during questioning, such as when a Harvard Law School student asked Frank if he felt any responsibility for the crisis as Chairman of the Finance Committee...
...talking about politics, it was quite an achievement because of the odds we were up against. Nobody thought we could possibly win. Everything was against us, from the media to the politicians, the whole political structure of the country, and we were able to get the law. In politics, it's more fun to win than it is to lose...