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Last night a committee appointed by the former president of Harvard held a public forum on its preliminary report on the wages of Harvard employees---an issue that led to the three-week occupation of the president's office by thirty students last year. The committee has found that even as Harvard's endowment has soared to $18 billion over the past decade, the real wages of its lowest paid employees have dropped significantly. Harvard's president Lawrence Summers, is a former secretary of the U.S. Treasury, has said that he will not make a decision on the issue until the committee issues its final report expected in mid-December.