Sandra Y.L. Korn
Harvard in the 75th Percentile
Harvard is not used to settling for 75th percentile. For better or for worse, HUCTW showed a lot of respect for Harvard when it agreed that workers would take a lower wage increase during the recession to offset the hit Harvard took in the financial crisis. Harvard should show its workers the same respect—and stop arguing that the 75th percentile is acceptable for clerical workers.
How to Make a Responsible Endowment
Creating a social choice fund that exists outside of the endowment is an important first step.
Welcome to East Point?
President Faust and the Harvard Gazette seem intent on introducing Harvard’s undergraduates to the military by framing ROTC—and the military—in a uniformly positive light.
A Profitable Library?
Efficiency comes at another price: workers become dispensable, interchangeable, and alienated from their work.
Aid Isn’t Enough
If Harvard’s administrators are committed to increasing the number of working-class and middle-class students at Harvard, they must address the structural roots of educational inequality.
An American in Palestine
Cautioned not to tell Palestinians that I am Jewish, I say, “I’m just American.” But here in the Holy Land, religion is of utmost importance; the shop owner presses me for an answer.
