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Ultimately, Harvard's resistance to corporate sponsorship hurts our varsity athletes. Why should we turn down free uniforms, shoes and apparel for the price of wearing a tiny Nike Swoosh or sporting Adidas' Three Stripes? Why turn down the opportunity to get the students and community more involved in Harvard athletics free of charge? Are millions of dollars worth the price of allowing a few corporate banners to be seen here and there? Does sponsorship really take away from the sports we play...
Just this past January, Michigan announced a seven-year deal with Nike--valued at between $25 and $28 million--for the right to license products bearing the Michigan logo...
...tune of "Everybody Dance Now," Albert H. Cho '02 and Jessica A. Fragola '04 stripped down to their underwear--in protest Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by manufacturing companies such as Nike to monitor working conditions in foreign factories...
...terrorist networks were ultimately dependent on sponsorship by states such as Libya and Syria. Afghanistan is a collapsed state run by an Islamic fundamentalist militia, for whom surrendering Bin Laden - who remains a hero to the angry youth of much of the Islamic world, his image reproduced on pirated Nike T-shirts sold throughout south Asia - might feel like an act of political hari-kiri...
...NIKE iD Here's a nifty thing to Just Do: Nike allows Web surfers to customize this sneaker online, selecting style, colors and lace types, even stamping the shoes with a personal ID code. Any bets on how long until you can pick your own sweatshop worker online...