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University of Michigan, or at least some of its students, seems to want a lot from everyone else: Coach Tedford from Cal, labor standards from clothing manufacturers and reimbursement for upwards of $6,000 in fines incurred against 12 protesters sitting in against labor standards for the companies that force six-year-olds to make university-licensed clothing without benefits.
Cry us a river. If students in Berkeley were willing to starve for their beliefs (even if for a totally unrelated cause and only questionably successful), we don’t see why Michigan should get its panties in a bunch over less than a month’s worth of rent. We pay our own legal fees.
Besides, protesting sweatshops is so two years ago. Even Stanford and Columbia caught on, students staged sit-ins or, in UC Berkeley’s case, naked picketing outside California Hall.
And maybe size doesn’t matter, but let’s take a look at each protest’s attendance:
* Stanford: 11
* Michigan: 12
* Columbia: 15
* UC Berkeley: 100
Oh, and did we mention our Campanile is bigger?
Image Source: Eli Weissman, Daily Cal
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