Harvard Sucks On

As if we didn't have enough reasons to despise Harvard University, their socialist administrators and students have thrown their weight against two entrepreneurial undergrads who hope to make money by creating jobs and cleaning apartments. Among the arguments against DormAid:

• Hiring someone to clean dorm rooms is a convenience, but it is also an obvious display of wealth that would establish a perceived, if unspoken, barrier between students of different economic means.
• Besides, said Mr. Slack, whose own room was strewn with clothes and beer cans on a recent visit, "I kind of revel in being able to live sort of slovenly."
• Harvard officials stopped him, vetoing DormAid because of concerns about insurance, security, the Fair Labor Standards Act and elitism, said Judith H. Kidd, an associate dean.
• They agreed to change the company's name from DorMaid to DormAid because, Mr. Kopko said, some Harvard officials said "maid" was "sexist and demeaning."
• "I definitely wouldn't tell my parents about it," Mr. Novy said. "They were students in the 60's, and they wouldn't have ordered such a service for political reasons. They would have probably done a sit-in in front of the apartments."

Wow. What morons. They think the word "maid" is sexist and demeaning. I wonder how that makes maids feel? And they want the right to live in a slovenly manner. I wonder how that makes Slovenes feel? But seriously, the entrepreneurs say that most of their $200,000 revenues at Harvard will go to higher-than-normal wages for, um, maids. But the hyper-socialists don't want to let these women work: they'd rather make sure that everyone is equally unemployed, equally slovenly, and equally irrelevantly erudite.