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...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...
...While at the Wall Street Journal Bacon interviewed Alan Greenspan 2 Greenspan played alongside Leonard Garment in the Henry Jerome band 3 Garment was a lawyer for Richard Nixon 4 Nixon spawned Watergate...
...workers from a Dominican Republic hat factory licensed by Harvard, speaking in front of University Hall, told us that they are paid 8 cents for each $20 hat they make, that the factory lacks safe drinking water and that workers are routinely fired for trying to organize. The American garment industry grosses $2.5 billion per year from the sale of university-licensed products manufactured in plants such as these. Harvard can help to stop this immoral impoverishment by adopting a strong code of conduct that guarantees fair conditions in factories producing Harvard apparel...
...Nike factory in Vietnam was riddled with errors and oversights. Accounting firms are less likely to be familiar with local conditions and to earn the trust of workers than nonprofits, who typically consult with local community organizations. Furthermore, most such firms are or have been under contract to garment companies--an unacceptable conflict of interest...
...most energetic nationwide student movement in decades. In just the past two weeks, student sit-ins at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Georgetown, and Duke have mobilized hundreds of students for days on end and won guarantees of full public disclosure. Meanwhile, Central American and Asian garment workers make Harvard clothes under deplorable conditions, concealed by the continuous movement of the global economy. If we are committed to fighting global injustice, we must join with other American students to demand a policy guaranteeing that this outrage ends. Aron R. Fischer '99-'00 is a social studies concentrator in Dudley...