"As they made the announcement that we were winning, all the Texas people were saying, 'Harvard? They do track over there?'" Taylor said after a meet in Texas this spring. "It was great."

Gyorffy has piled up a stack of accolades--All-American, Outstanding Female Athlete of the Meet at Outdoor Heptagonals--but she hopes the most important one is yet to come.

Earlier this spring, she learned that she will represent her native Hungary in the Olympics this September, and she will spend this summer training in hopes that she can match or beat her NCAA-record jump of this year.

"In an Olympic final, anything can happen," Gyorffy says. "So, I just want to do the best I am capable of on that day. If I leave the track knowing that I did what I could that day, I will be satisfied no matter what."

D. Quinn Mills and PSLM

The expansion of benefits for casual workers this spring was remarkable for two reasons. Harvard students, normally apolitical, spoke out loudly. And Harvard administrators, normally invulnerable to student activism, listened to them.

After a year of fact-finding and deliberating, a committee chaired by Weatherhead Professor of Business Administration D. Quinn Mills issued recommendations in May that will significantly improve quality of life for the University's most marginal employees.

Committee members, in turn, credited members of Living Wage Campaign, part of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), for providing the impetus for change.

Mills' Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies called for extending health care and job training benefits to virtually all University employees, including casual and sub-contracted workers who had previously been only spottily covered. They also asked Harvard to expand a pilot literacy program.

But the committee rejected students' central demand--that Harvard pay a minimum wage of $10.25 to all its workers. Mills said he was "in broad principle in agreement" with the living wage but that the proposal was impractical and too rigid.

PSLM members applauded the changes but said they wouldn't give up on a wage increase.

Other activist groups might not have had the stamina to continue, but the Living Wage Campaign has displayed enormous staying power. The group has organized several large rallies, including some of Harvard's most creative demonstrations in years.