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Three students protesting Harvard sweatshop policy inside Mass Hall yesterday morning provoked a rapid administrative response, as Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers evicted the students and College and University officials gathered to discuss the demonstration...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) organized the action in response to a wave of anti-sweatshop sit-ins at college campuses across the country. The group planned to spend four hours handing out leaflets in Mass Hall, but was ejected within minutes...
University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., who meets with PSLM members on a regular basis to discuss Harvard's sweatshop policy, said he hoped yesterday's events would not affect the ongoing dialogue...
Illingworth said the group discussed both sweatshop policy and issues of security...
...hippie commune. People here shop at the Gap, for Christ's sake," objects Weddington to suggestions that most Co-opers are very leftist. The Gap? But what about the big poster on the wall protesting Gap sweatshop use? At the top of one flight of stairs is a mural, known as the "Tribute to Karl Marx." Surrounding a photo of the socialist and a rising red Communist star, the words "Workers of the World Unite" are written in a plethora of languages. The dining room is decorated with half a dozen Communist posters in vivid reds and oranges. "Not everyone...