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Ilana J. Sichel ’05 is a thorn in the side of the establishment. The literature concentrator affiliated with the Dudley Co-op is co-chair of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). She has actively rallied for an array of causes, from the pro-choice to the anti-snow-penis variety. Sichel is now taking on a perhaps more formidable opponent...
Herms says that the Dudley Co-op incident referred to when he suggested that their winter party have a University Health Services licensed massage therapist instead of alcohol...
...events, which occurred over a three-year span, included “making in appropriate comments with sexual connotations to students at the Dudley House Co-op, misrepresenting his relationship with the Harvard Security guards and the Committee Against Sexual Violence at Harvard....culminating with Mr. Herms’ solicitation of students to work for him by drinking alcoholic beverages with university police officers...
...sweet deal--in which Green Mountain guarantees the co-op at least $1.26 per lb. for some of its coffee even though the world price is around 60¢--also helps the $117 million company position itself as a socially responsible corporate citizen. On 42 of the 100 varieties of coffee that Green Mountain sells in supermarkets, gas stations and offices, it pastes an official seal that reads fair trade certified, proof that it paid a living wage to the growers. "The Taste of a Better World" is Green Mountain's marketing slogan, and its Fair Trade sales grew 92% last...
...They are taking a page from an old Nike playbook, which could be risky in today's politically charged market. When the shoemaker originally balked at changing work conditions at its contracted factories, a consumer backlash damaged the company's reputation and sales. Humanitarian groups such as Oxfam and Co-op America are now asking big wholesalers to switch at least 2% of their purchases to Fair Trade. And last November, Catholic Relief Services launched an effort to persuade the nation's 65 million Catholics "to live out their faith" by drinking Fair Trade brew. They are joining Lutheran, Methodist...