Word: michigans
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...most recent victories occurred at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor this month when graduate students and university administrators reached an agreement which raised wages and other compensation for international graduate students who are required to stay in Michigan during the summer for English workshops...
When Linda S. Wilson became Radcliffe's seventh president on July 1, 1989, she was widely expected to continue the status quo. Wilson, a former vice president at the University of Michigan, was considered less a strong feminist than an experienced administrator who would manage the college's long-term future...
Wilson's background was less academic thanadministrative--before coming to Radcliffe she wasa vice president of the University of Michigan...
Though eschewing the more aggressive and often violent tactics of '60s campus radicals, these '90s-style protesters have made an impact. Michigan and Wisconsin, among other schools, have vowed to push licensing companies to disclose locations of textile factories and then guarantee certain wages and conditions for workers. "They have forced the universities to move on this issue," says Congressman George Miller, a California Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, who sent the students a letter of support signed by 23 of his colleagues...
Still, the protesters have maintained the relatively polite demeanor of a movement that is, after all, an extracurricular activity. Rodolfo Palma-Lulion, an anti-sweatshop activist at the University of Michigan, says of last month's sit-in: "The point was to show that students are not apathetic, that we care deeply about this issue, then go back to class...