This particular committee, led by Professor of Economics Lawrence Katz, may have student representation, but we’re more likely to see it do a kick-line at next year’s Pudding Show than make any radical recommendations.

Student representation, for one thing, doesn’t mean PSLM representation. The students chosen by the Undergraduate Council may not even support a living wage: The council roundly condemned the PSLM sit-in less than two weeks ago.

Just when you thought you’d heard the worst of it, you should know council members can’t resign fast enough to be considered for one of the two student spots. Let me get this straight: a group of students who can’t get us fried dough is going to get the living wage?

The worst thing about this new committee isn’t the fact that it is an exercise in redundancy or an excuse to twiddle our collective thumbs. The worst thing is that it will report to the next president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers. This was exactly what PSLM was trying to avoid when it decided to hold its protest during the waning days of the Rudenstine administration.

You’d think with all the Phi Beta Kappas in their midst PSLM would have been able to predict what will happen when Summers receives the committee’s report.

With a wave of his pudgy hand, the biggest man on campus will dismiss the recommendations of the Katz committee. “Out! Out with those arbitrary wage floors!” he’ll bellow. “We will have no market imperfections at this University!”

Then, when PSLM-ers try to re-occupy in a desperate re-enactment in order to rectify the situation, Summers will single-handedly block the entrance to Mass. Hall.