September 25, 2003 9:28 AM

Harvard at $7.50 per hour
Posted by Jason Butlerat 9:28 AM

The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles a student who has written a book on the service workers at Harvard University.

There is a deliberate aura of wealth and power at Harvard, and it is tended to by more than a thousand workers. They dust the portraits, polish the oak panels, and prune the trees. They cook the food and guard the campus; they work in every room of every building, day and night, and yet one of their frequent complaints is that the nation's most perceptive students and scholars simply do not see them.