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Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010418165959.00bc79e0@hesiod> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:04:42 -0400 To: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU From: Cameron Bass <cbass@MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <200104181920.PAA03020@dichotomy.dyn.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Resent-From: jhawk@MIT.EDU Resent-To: mit-talk-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU This isn't a matter of paying grad students more. THe people whose wages are being addressed here are the blue collar workers who are being exploited becuase large institutions are run like businesses. THese are the people who are working at harvard so they can eat, not the ones trying to afford a grad degree so they can pay other people to go shopping for them in a few years. Harvard can afford this. Its not something thats going to cripple their finances. THeir endowment is enough to buy quite a few third world countries, raising the wages of their janitors and office workers is not going to cause them to cease the research that is creating such a profit for them in the first place. Paying grad students more has nothing to do with whether or not the janitors are forced to work two jobs to feed their kids. bitter at living in a bubble Cameron At 03:20 PM 4/18/01 -0400, Sourav K. Mandal wrote: >"Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>" wrote: > > > From: "harvard living wage campaign" > <harvard_livingwagecampaign@hotmail.com> > > Subject: LIVING WAGE SIT-IN AT HARVARD > > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:45:41 -0000 >[...] > >This will make research and education more expensive, as the operating >costs for universities will grow substantially. The fact of the matter >is that universities like Harvard can have their pick of students, and >therefore can easily pay them less; increasing grad student pay does >little, if anything, for them. A more efficacious strategy would be to >convince less prestigious institutions to pay their graduates students >more, and thereby attract better students. This might, in turn, >attract higher quality faculty, benefiting the institution (faculty, >grad students, undergrads) overall. > > >Sourav > > >------------------------------------------------------------ >Sourav K. Mandal > >Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com >http://www.ikaran.com/Sourav.Mandal/
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