It's people's lives we're talking about. Like McGuire, many university administrators have stressed the need to address the problem of sweatshops in an incremental manner. This code is a first step. Like Donahue, administrators at other schools have framed the debate as one of pragmatism vs. idealism. We disagree about strategy.
Students object to the suggestion that the idealistic approach is necessarily unworkable.
Only by rejecting the Collegiate Licensing Company code will Georgetown be taken seriously. The Feb. 1 deadline Collegiate Licensing set for universities to make their decisions loomed and then passed. Meanwhile, students involved in the anti-sweatshop campaign only became more active in lobbying for their schools to reject the code. Last weekend, students opposing the Code of Conduct won a large victory at Duke University. According to the Chronicle, Keohan reluctantly decided to sign the code after canvassing other universities and finding little support for rejection of the code among them.