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PSLM timed the rally to precede a meeting in New York today at which officials from several universities will discuss whether to recommend an Ivy League-wide "code of conduct" to regulate the use of sweatshop labor...
...protesting the use of sweatshop laborhave erupted on college campuses across the nationin the past few weeks. At Georgetown University,students occupied the president's office for fivedays. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison,protestors held a sit-in for 97 hours. Bothschools eventually acceded to the protestors'demands...
Hennefeld hinted that a future takeover ofMass. Hall wasn't out of the question, predictingmore forceful demonstrations if Ivy League schoolsadopt a sweatshop policy too weak for PSLM...
...Harvard is very much in favor of a stronganti-sweatshop policy for the Ivy League," hesaid. "It might be we just need to get somethinggoing now...let's do what we can and work on thedetails as we go ahead...
...interviewed several employees at KDC, from its growers in the field to the sweatshop where the product is refined to its Washington lobbyist, and came up with the following two recommendations...