Mr. Sullivan's insistence on equality and his leadership in encouraging companies to pull out of South Africa are credited with helping to end apartheid. Mr. Sullivan said he is encouraged by grass-roots efforts on college campuses to crack down on sweatshops that manufacture collegiate apparel, and he wants to advance efforts already under way to monitor those factories. In addition to that movement, institutions should scrutinize the human-rights records of companies that sponsor internships for their students, recruit on their campuses, and manage their endowments, he said. They also should review how human rights are discussed in the classroom. Mr. Sullivan equated Thursday's meeting to a similarly small gathering he attended in Atlanta in the late 1950's, at the invitation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Mr. Sullivan, who had made a name for himself leading boycotts of businesses in Philadelphia that discriminated against black people, saw for himself the seeds of the civil rights movement.
Education doing business as usual is done.
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