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...when campus protests are more likely to involve bans on booze than the U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia, one cause seems to have galvanized students as nothing else in more than a decade. In the past three months the issue of sweatshop labor has sparked student sit-ins at Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin. Backed by unions and human-rights groups, students on more than 50 other campuses from Harvard to Holy Cross are circulating petitions, picketing college bookstores and launching websites calling for "sweat-free" clothing. At Yale, students held a "knit-in," doing needlework in the center...
Gelin was in the process of helping friends search for homes, so Foshko went house browsing in her Georgetown neighborhood...
After sustained pressure on their schools' administrators, student activists at Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin have reached major compromises with their administrations regarding the use of sweatshop labor in recent months...
...University's actions follow in the footsteps of schools such as Georgetown, Duke and Notre Dame universities, who have made similar pledges in recent weeks...
Sweatshop protesters say the rally follows onthe heels of similar protests at universities suchas Georgetown and Duke. Yesterday, Harvard alsoissued a letter in response to an Ivy League-wideultimatum issued by protesters Feb. 26. Protesterssaid the letter did not meet their demands...