Speakers expressed disbelief that an institution with an endowment exceeding $14 billion refuses to pay its workers a living wage.

"Harvard has just been through a great campaign to support its endowment, but part of this money should support the wages of all the people who work at this university," Duehay said.

PSLM members said threats of outsourcing and a faculty task force created last spring are attempts by the administration to "silence" protests, but they vowed to continue their efforts.

Plans are already in the works for a major event for mid-November, on par with March's "Rally for Justice," which attracted almost 400 students.

Rally organizer Molly E. McOwen '02 called Friday a "warm-up" for the next event and a way to inform incoming students about the campaign.

"It's something that we wanted to do to get ready for the upcoming rally in November," she said. "We've been trying to pull together people--a lot of new people have never heard of the living wage idea, and it's important to get the word out."

Duehay said he was proud of students' efforts and remained optimistic about the campaign.

"I feel very, very confident that Harvard will do what they know is right," he said.