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The action at Yale continued a two-week flurry of anti-sweatshop activism on campuses across the country. Protesters have staged sit-ins at four schools, including the University of Pennsylvania. A two-day sit-in at Johns Hopkins University is still ongoing.
Over the last two weeks, students on three campuses have staged sit-ins for a total of 16 days.
A British-born Canadian, Gladwell, 36, started thinking about the large consequences of marginal actions while working on a story about the crime rate in New York City. William Bratton, then the city's police commissioner, was a believer in the "broken windows" theory, which says such big crimes as...
He also condemned the use of sit-ins as a tactic.
"It's something we're following and will continue to follow, but just because other schools [withdraw] doesn't mean we're going to do it," he said. "[This is] particularly so when the actions of other schools come in response to sit-ins, because that's not how our...