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Like most freshmen at the University of Michigan, Peter Romer-Friedman came to campus wide-eyed and full of school spirit. After arriving in the fall of 1997, he decorated his dorm room with posters of his school teams, cheered on the Wolverines at the Rose Bowl and proudly outfitted himself in Michigan sweatshirts and caps. Then last summer, during an internship with the AFL-CIO, he started to hear how Michigan and other colleges get their sportswear--by employing licensing companies that use overseas factories where garment workers toil long hours, often for pennies...
...Romer-Friedman returned to campus in the fall fired up--but this time about more than football. With the help of a textile union, he and a group of friends pinpointed a factory in the Dominican Republic where workers earn just 69[cents] an hour making Michigan hats. They demanded that the university begin monitoring the production of Michigan clothing, which brought the school $5.7 million last year. In mid-March he and 29 classmates stormed into the university president's office. After a 51-hour sit-in, they emerged with a pledge by administrators to improve the conditions...
...labor. Since he took over the AFL-CIO in 1995, John Sweeney has brought labor's cause to campus, pouring more than $3 million into internships and outreach programs meant to interest students in careers as union activists. Indeed, it was summer stints at unions that first alerted Romer-Friedman and other students to the sweatshop issue...
Despite all the complications, Quad parties continue to retain an impressive track record. Friedman stresses, "if people on the River hear about a party out here, it's definitely worth coming to. We get a deejay, it's great...people don't know about these things." Jones raves about the salacious details of Cabot library suite bashes. "It's fantastic," Jones says, "people, especially really attractive girls, stand on the window ledges and dance. It's great!" And though Bush admits that he doesn't think the Quad "party suites" have yet fulfilled their social potential this year, he hopes...
...actually housed there this semester. Other anomalies of note are the top-floor Pforzheimer suites (which come with skylights) and the infamous Currier 10-man. Occupying space originally allotted for the House offices, the Currier suite includes ten singles and a large common area. 10-man resident Brian Friedman, '00, believes that the room has a particular social role on campus, which it has thus far dutifully upheld this year...