Members of the Harvard Graduate Students Union–United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW) are on strike at Harvard University, and the Harvard Crimson’s account of what happened outside Emerson Hall on Oct. 29 raises a far too familiar question about Harvard’s leadership: Why is protecting students’ education still treated as a matter of competing rights?

The background to what is going on at Harvard is quite straightforward: Roughly 250 undergraduates were taking a midterm when striking graduate students gathered with megaphones, air horns, and sirens outside the lecture hall where the exam was being administered.

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