They visited Corporation member Conrad K. Harper's home in Connecticut, were escorted out of D. Ron Daniel's office at McKinsey and Co., and leafleted the Harvard Club of New York.
They say future visits are a definite possibility.
Loeb House's Legacy
But while PSLM has only recently realized the quiet power of the Corporation, Epps says this strategy is not without precedent-it is a natural step in the progression of an escalating campaign.
Epps points to the anti-Vietnam "crisis" in 1969, where students, claiming that Harvard was complicit in the war, protested the presence of ROTC on campus.
While there are significant differences between the campaigns of 30 years ago and today's living wage campaign, Epps draws certain parallels.
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