I'll bet the rooms are messy:
"Pro-union hotel housekeepers protest at Harvard" by Jack Newsham, Globe Correspondent November 20, 2014
Dozens of housekeeping employees at the Hilton DoubleTree Suites hotel in Allston held a one-day strike Thursday.
The housekeeping employees have tried for more than a year to persuade Harvard University, which owns but does not manage the hotel, to side with them in their effort to unionize. On Thursday morning, they rallied outside Harvard’s Science Center with the university’s unionized dining hall workers.
“There has never been a hotel workers’ strike in Boston that housekeepers have participated in,” said Tiffany Ten Eyck, an organizer with the Local 26 union that represents Boston hospitality workers at many other hotels. “We have a tremendously good relationship with the hotels in Boston.”
The group of housekeeping workers and their supporters are not picketing at the hotel, but Ten Eyck said many striking workers were scheduled to work today and chose to demonstrate instead.
About 700 students, religious workers, and hotel and food service workers from around the city showed up for a rally Thursday evening outside the Science Center to support the housekeepers’ unionization efforts....
Related:
"Harvard University will expand its computer science faculty by 50 percent over the next decade, a major campaign designed to position the university as a leader in the field amid surging enrollment in its computer science classes. The initiative, which aims to spur breakthroughs across a range of disciplines, largely is being financed by Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft chief executive who graduated from Harvard in 1977."
He is giving how much?
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And look at these stains I found on the sheets:
"In the fierce debate about campus sexual assault, Harvard University’s policy has come under particular scrutiny, assailed by some professors as a product of political correctness that stacks the deck against the accused. But a range of specialists who help colleges handle misconduct allegations say Harvard’s policy is decidedly mainstream.
By not including sexual-consent guidelines adopted by a growing number of schools, Harvard has taken a more conservative approach than many of its peers, they say.
In recent years, many colleges have adopted an “affirmative consent” standard, which states that sex is considered consensual only if both partners explicitly communicate their willingness to engage in sexual activity....
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"Newburyport police seek suspect in sexual assaults" by Trisha Thadani, Globe Correspondent November 06, 2014
Newburyport police are seeking a man in connection with a string of sexual assaults in that city over the past four months — the most recent on Monday night, police said.
In the Monday attack, a girl was walking to meet her boyfriend around 9:30 p.m., when a man came up from behind and sexually assaulted her near the intersection of High Street and Summit Place, said a spokesman for the Newburyport Police Department on Thursday.
The victim’s boyfriend, who was approaching, saw what happened and attempted to chase the suspect but was unable to catch up to him, police said.
The string of four attacks on four women and the girl since June appears to involve the same man, Newburyport police said in a statement Thursday.
The victim in Monday night’s attack did not require medical assistance, but police are still warning the public that the perpetrator is dangerous.
City Marshal Thomas Howard said the attacks were isolated, and it appears the victims did not know their assailant.
“This is a dangerous sexual predator who targets women with increasing audacity and violence, even striking women in well-lit areas,” Howard said in a statement.
“Newburyport continues to be a safe community, and the police department is working aggressively to identify and apprehend the individual behind these incidents,” Newburyport Mayor Donna D. Holaday said in the statement....
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