Break Again
I've been back at school for a week and a few days and Wed. I'll be going home again. March feels like it hasn't existed. I haven't done much in the ways of school work and it'll probably all come back to hit me soon but w/e I don't care.
Saturday I picked housing for next year. Me and Lydia will be residents of Reynolds 612, should be pretty awesome since we have 30 more square feet than our current rooms. Southwest quad is the newest and cleanest of all dorms so I am pretty happy with our pick. It kinda sucks that we will no longer be so close to the rest of the pod. They have rooms from LXR to Village C East and Copley. I will have to make an extra effort not to be antisocial next year but I guess it could be worse. My current next door neighbors didn't even get housing although the entire sophmore class is required to live on campus.
The group Living Wage Now is on a hunger strike and have been for 6 days now trying to get Georgetown to pay a living wage to all its contracted workers. I am still trying to figure out how I feel about this. I am in favor of paying peope enough so that they may eat and support their families but the move form 8.50 an hour to 14.94 is a big jump especially for a university that is in debt. I am not in favor of the hunger strike though. The effort is not helping at all because by refusing to eat they are putting the focus on themselves and away from the issue. They have been holding rallies everyday of the hunger strike but instead of discussing labor issues they are yelling about how much weight they've lost. They refuse to compromise which is also a problem. The university offered an increase to $14 which I feel is reasonable especially since the living wage they are asking for is disputed by many different studies. I applaud the group for their commitment but I think that they should do something that is more practical. Part of the reason they refused the proposed increase was because they didn't like the University's methods of creating policy, that is bordering on ridiculous. By refusing to give in even a little they are making harder to even give the workers more than what they have, which has to be better than nothing.
At first I felt bad saying that I didn't support Living Wage Now but its not giving just compensation that I don't like its the way they are going about it that gets me. Feel free to comment.
Saturday I picked housing for next year. Me and Lydia will be residents of Reynolds 612, should be pretty awesome since we have 30 more square feet than our current rooms. Southwest quad is the newest and cleanest of all dorms so I am pretty happy with our pick. It kinda sucks that we will no longer be so close to the rest of the pod. They have rooms from LXR to Village C East and Copley. I will have to make an extra effort not to be antisocial next year but I guess it could be worse. My current next door neighbors didn't even get housing although the entire sophmore class is required to live on campus.
The group Living Wage Now is on a hunger strike and have been for 6 days now trying to get Georgetown to pay a living wage to all its contracted workers. I am still trying to figure out how I feel about this. I am in favor of paying peope enough so that they may eat and support their families but the move form 8.50 an hour to 14.94 is a big jump especially for a university that is in debt. I am not in favor of the hunger strike though. The effort is not helping at all because by refusing to eat they are putting the focus on themselves and away from the issue. They have been holding rallies everyday of the hunger strike but instead of discussing labor issues they are yelling about how much weight they've lost. They refuse to compromise which is also a problem. The university offered an increase to $14 which I feel is reasonable especially since the living wage they are asking for is disputed by many different studies. I applaud the group for their commitment but I think that they should do something that is more practical. Part of the reason they refused the proposed increase was because they didn't like the University's methods of creating policy, that is bordering on ridiculous. By refusing to give in even a little they are making harder to even give the workers more than what they have, which has to be better than nothing.
At first I felt bad saying that I didn't support Living Wage Now but its not giving just compensation that I don't like its the way they are going about it that gets me. Feel free to comment.