(Northeastern) Students step up, rally for janitors

Danny Deza and Maggie Cassidy
Issue date: 5/7/08 Section: News

The Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) stepped up their visibility at the end of the spring semester, parading through the streets of Boston, rallying outside President Joseph Aoun's Beacon Hill house and displaying banners at graduation events, including commencement.

About 100 people marched April 26 from Krentzmen Quad to President Aoun's house on Beacon Hill. The march started a three-day campaign in front of his home where speakers and candlelight vigils were conducted on the doorsteps ...

Last Friday, the protest continued when PSA members went to the commencement ceremony at TD Banknorth Garden. As Aoun took the stage, two members dropped a Justice for Janitors banner behind him, a gesture that lasted five minutes before security took it down.

These moves were the latest in an ongoing and reoccurring campaign to pressure Northeastern to grant its janitors higher wages and improved working conditions ...

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