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...Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, who pled guilty in the fall to charges of indecent assault and battery. The protest, organized by the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, the Living Wage Campaign and Students Against Sweatshops, also called for a stronger University stance against sweatshop labor, alleging that some apparel manufactured with the Harvard name was produced by companies using sweatshops, in addition to advocating for a minimum living wage for Harvard employees...
...University releases an internal investigation of the worldwide college apparel manufacturing industry, finding conditions bleak for workers...
...Living Wage Campaign agitated for higher wages for Harvard employees, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence condemned the College’s policies concerning sexual assault as insufficient and unfair, and Students Against Sweatshops protested Harvard’s use of factories with poor labor conditions in the production of apparel with the Harvard name. In March 1999, these three groups came together for a “Rally for Justice.” Various other incidents of student protest have occurred throughout the past four years. But the prominence of student activism as an issue for Harvard students and historians...
...didn't fit, exchange them at Sears. "This synchronization of multiple sales channels is absolutely the future of retail," says John Champion, a vice president at Kurt Salmon Associates, a consulting firm in Atlanta. The future may already be here: according to Nielsen/NetRatings, for every dollar spent online for apparel in December 2001, an additional $1.63 was spent offline as a direct result of the online visit...
Sandra McKeveny, 55, a mother of three from Pelham Manor, N.Y., buys from both Sears and Lands' End but says she has rarely walked through Sears' apparel floor. She acknowledges that while it might be nice to be able to touch and feel a Lands' End shirt before buying it, she will probably still just order from the catalog. She concedes, however, that now that she knows Sears will be stocking Lands' End goods, she might "wander off" to that department the next time she stops in for an appliance...