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Worker Rights Consortium.
SEJ members said the FLA was inef
fective because it hid information from
the public. The FLA is a nonprofit orga
nization composed of apparel and
footwear companies, labor rights groups
and universities.
Jon Wexler, a 1997 UNC graduate
and Chapel Hill resident, said the FLA
left the monitoring process in the hands
of corporations. “They are not going to
monitor themselves properly,” he said.
SEJ members support joining the
WRC, a group created with input from
workers, students and labor advocates.
“The WRC actually provides real
monitoring,” Wexler said.
„ Students armed with pans, a guitar,
drums and other noisemakers marched
across campus carrying -and wearing
signs like “FLA = Sweatshop Coverup.”
The protesters, 15 students strong,
first gathered around the University seal
at Polk Place, where SEJ member Todd
Pugatch, a student representative of the
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teachers and counselors about the
change as soon as possible.
While he said data indicated the new
requirement might adversely affect
blacks, he said alerting students early
would limit its negative consequences.
Perry Massey, provost and vice chan
cellor for academic affairs at Fayetteville
State University, also said he was con
cerned about informing high school stu
dents, especially black students, of the
requirements.
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member Douglas Crawford-Brown.
The committee is currently consider
ing feedback from the University com
munity. It will present a revised report
with recommendations to the Faculty
Council. Turchi said he hoped that
would occur by the end of the semester.
Crawford-Brown said the Faculty
Council would need more than one com
mittee report to make a decision.
“This is a big matter with very serious
implications.”
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Committee, recapped the anti-sweat
shop movement.
Last April, SEJ led a three-day stu
dent sit-in at South Building in which
interim Chancellor Bill McCoy agreed
to require full disclosure of companies
that manufacture UNC products.
“We won the first half,” he said. “Our
task now is to win the second half.”
SEJ members asked that the advisory
committee provide McCoy with a rec
ommendation about the WRC by
Friday and that McCoy make a decision
by April 3.
Pugatch said that at the last two advi
sory committee meetings, the group
thoroughly discussed issues regarding
the F LA and the WRC. “I’m confident
that we’ll be able to give the chancellor
a good description of his options.”
If the University becomes a member
by the April deadline, a UNC delegate
could attend the consortium’s April 7
founding conference in New York City
and have a say in the WRC’s structure.
The protesters moved from the seal
to the steps of South Building and even
tually into the building’s rotunda.
“I suppose it will go back to alerting
the students what the requirements
might be,” Massey said.
“Some students, particularly black
students, are jumping right to what is
needed and only the minimum require
ments.”
Dr. Albert Walker, vice chancellor for
academic affairs at Elizabeth City State
University, said all students must pre
pare themselves better. “It’s going to
depend on the readiness of the student
and how they prepare in high school,”
he said. “If they plan to go on to higher
education, they’re going to have to pre
pare, black or white."
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They sang “Solidarity Forever” to the
tune of “Glory, Glory Hallelujah” and
“The 12 Days of Sweatshopping,”
including “gifts” of 12-hour days, cancer
causing fumes, sexual harassment, cor
porate greed, slave labor shoes and toys
made by kids.
The employees in South Building
shut their doors to keep the noise out. A
few minutes later, the students were
advised to keep the noise down or leave.
“Does it seem familiar to them? It
seems familiar to me,” said protester
Lucie Laurian, referring to April’s sit-in.
The protest was low-key in compari
son with the Feb. 25 “party” called “I’d
rather go naked than wear clothes from
a sweatshop.”
Pugatch said they planned to protest
every week until McCoy answered their
demands. “We want to basically be a
thorn in the (administration’s) side."
Although McCoy was out of town
Friday, the SEJ members were not
deterred. “Eventually,” Pugatch said,
“he’ll have to make a decision."
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Walker also said increasing the stan
dard for enrollment would benefit both
students and the university. “When we
see that there’s a need to improve the
overall quality (of the university), it can
only make the students better students
and better in the job market,” he said.
Bames said it was important for black
students, particularly those whose par
ents never attended college, to under
stand what it took to better themselves.
“If we do our jobs well, I think this will
ensure even greater success (for blacks).”
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The senior from Hiddenite said she
suffered from a severe case of seniori
tis, an unfortunate “illness.” because
she plans to stay at UNC for one more
year.
“Even though I’m not graduating,
I’m not motivated,” Biggs said.
“I don’t know if it’s because I’ve
been here four years or because I’m
surrounded by seniors, but it’s hard to
study.”
She added that her difficult nursing
school classes required her to study
quite a bit, which aggravated her
condition.
Biggs is also in the process of find
ing people to live with who are not
graduating because her roommate of
four years, Leslie Meadows, will gradu
ate in May.
Meanwhile Meadows said she was
making her mind up about next year.
She decided to apply to Columbia
University in New York City to obtain
a graduate degree in environmental
science.
But she seemed only semi-confident
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considered other plans.
“My new theory of the week of what
I’ll do next year is enter the Coast
Guard,” Meadows said. “I can still go
to school if I do that But I haven’t
ruled a real job out yet. I just don’t
want to think about it yet.”
Meadows, a senior also from
Hiddenite, said she felt better now
because she had at least a few ideas
about next year. But she, too, admitted
lacking the drive to do schoolwork.
“If Heather is studying, I’ll study,”
she said. “But I do other things, too.
Sometimes I wonder where the night
time goes.”
Biting Into the Big Apple
The arrival of spring semester
marked the emergence of a “much
more relaxed” Bryan Wagner.
After the decision of choosing
between what Wagner called “two
incredible job offers" in December, the
senior from Cary said the worst was
behind him. Starting this summer,
Wagner will transform from UNC
business student to New York City
investment banking analyst.
He said he planned to move to New
Monday, March 6, 2000
York City sometime in mid July and
will go through a six-week training
course before he begins working his
regular schedule.
Wagner said that when that phase of
his life started, he would be working
nonstop. So now he wants to make the
most of his free time by spending a
good portion of it with his friends.
“I am going out way more than I
ever did before," he said. “I’m not tak
ing anything for granted. I want to be
involved now in opportunities I won’t
have in a year.”
Wagner said he was excited about
moving to New York City. But he men
tioned the worries about finding an
apartment, paying the rent and finding
anew doctor and dentist - things he
takes for granted.
He also said he was selling his car
because he wouldn’t need it in New
York City.
“It’ll be a huge change, but I’m
ready to go,” he said. “The big city and
traffic are exhilarating. It’s never been
an issue. I wanted to go to New York.”
And he now has his chance.
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