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...independent contractor will inspect the worn Hasty Pudding building in the next month to see if it is safe for students to use next year, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71 said last week...
...banality of evil," as Hannah Arendt described Eichmann's bureaucratic Final Solution. The photographs present, rather, a sort of festivity of evil. Well dressed white people - the men in jaunty straw boaters, the women in pretty Sunday dresses, the children (children!) neat as a pin - are posed as they inspect mutilated and naked black corpses. People have brought picnic baskets. The pictures were sent as postcards through the mail...
These monitoring groups should inspect factories producing Harvard goods and apparel to make sure they do not operate under sweatshop conditions. In fact, these monitoring groups are critical to Harvard's commitment to fair labor practices because they not only help discover factories that violate its code of conduct, but they also determine when factories have reformed their practices to follow the code of conduct. It is understood that workers need their jobs so the purpose has always been to reform violating factories through negotiations or sanctions rather than closing them down or ending their contracts. It is not difficult...
...other hand, business and industry organizes and continues to run the FLA. Indeed, it recently announced that it intends to hire Price Waterhouse Coopers, a business services corporation with ties to most major garment manufacturers, to do its field-work. The FLA also has bad inspection policies. It does not require the results of site visits be made public, it announces where and when it will inspect factories, it allows companies to select monitors and list which factories should be monitored and it deals with third party complaints in a convoluted way. The FLA leaves such matters in the hands...
Opponents of the FLA also criticize the organization's monitoring methods. They charge that the organization does not monitor enough factories and cannot be impartial. "Companies decide who monitors and which factories get monitored, the FLA notifies factories ahead of time, they have to [inspect] as little as five percent, and then [the FLA] labels all products of a company as 'sweat-free,'" Roeper says...