Apparel angst.NO COLLEGE PRESIDENT IN HIS right mind would want apparel bearing his school's logo made in a sweatshop sweatshop: see sweating system. . But licensing agreements, long-held partnerships, and factors specific to the retail business make putting an end to such circumstances complicated. The National Association of College Stores (NACS NACS National Association of Convenience Stores NACS National Association of College Stores NACS North American Catalan Society NACS North American Catalysis Society NACS Network Access Control System NACS National Advisory Committee On Semiconductors ) has issued a research paper analyzing one approach to ending support for companies with ties to sweatshops. The Designated Suppliers Program The Designated Suppliers Program (DSP) is a procurement standard proposed by the Worker Rights Consortium and United Students Against Sweatshops. The program was designed to promote the use by US universities of suppliers that make use of a defined set of fair labor practices. would require business partners to source licensed apparel only from factories that follow certain workplace rules. Backed by the Worker Rights Consortium, the DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive has drawn support from a number of IHEs, including the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). and Columbia University. Yet others have expressed concerns about the program's complexities, and its potential for skyrocketing apparel prices and for opening the door to antitrust lawsuits. Martin Jischke, president of Purdue University, opted not to support the DSP despite student protests at his Indiana institution last spring. "I am especially concerned about the requirement for unionization," Jischke wrote in a statement. More discussion about the DSP is likely to surface this spring, says Marc Fleischaker, general counsel for NACS. "There are likely to be additional changes that reflect some of the business and campus issues that we and others have raised." The paper can be downloaded from www.nacs.org. |
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