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This is the complete opposite of what individual states have been doing. In the last several years, citizens in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington and Oregon have all passed campaign-finance initiatives. Two more states, Arizona and Massachusetts, passed similar laws during the 1998 elections. These states run the ideological gamut, but their voters all understand one thing: The massive influx of money into the political process is dangerous to our 200-year-old ideal of democracy...
...definitely a good win for us," saidjunior midfielder Kim Weeks. "An Ivy win is alwaysa good win."CrimsonAbigail H. ZobaLA CROIX,WISCONSIN:Harvard beat Pennbut lost to Maryland at home...
...University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) made headlines late last month when administrators announced a plan to create an alternative ROTC on campus that would not discriminate against any students...
...likely to involve bans on booze than the U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia, one cause seems to have galvanized students as nothing else in more than a decade. In the past three months the issue of sweatshop labor has sparked student sit-ins at Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin. Backed by unions and human-rights groups, students on more than 50 other campuses from Harvard to Holy Cross are circulating petitions, picketing college bookstores and launching websites calling for "sweat-free" clothing. At Yale, students held a "knit-in," doing needlework in the center of campus...
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...