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While the PSLM "home team" advocated for a living wage in the Science Center, a 20-person "away team" travelled to Greenwich Connecticut and New York City to target members of the Harvard Corporation at their homes and offices.

PSLM members say the trip was the first in a series of protests that will target Corporation members, as the ultimate decision-makers at Harvard.

Although none of the Corporation members were in their offices, the students said the trip was worthwhile--not only did they get a sense of how the Corporation members live, but they were also able to speak to secretaries and co-workers about living wage issues.

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The student protestors travelled from the Rockefeller Plaza to yacht clubs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, leaving leaflets with worker's testimonies about Harvard's wages on them.

They found their way into the Harvard Club of New York and proceeded to place leaflets advocating a living wage in every possible location.

"The Harvard Club was the most memorable part of the trip. We were in this very old, Harvard-looking building with portraits of dead white men on the walls and big old moose heads," said PSLM member Matthew R. Skomarovsky '03.

"We left the leaflets in bathrooms, magazines, drawers and shelves. We just covered the place," he continued. "People will be finding them for months to come."

And that sort of publicity was ultimately the purpose of the trip, says PSLM member Aaron D. Bartley, a third-year law student.

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