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But more than the FLA or the
WRC itself, Frohnmayer said Tues
day’s decision was made to ensure
effective compliance with the Uni
versity’s Trademark Licensee Code
of Conduct, which sets standards
for the conditions under which Uni
versity apparel is made.
“The code of conduct remains
our central focus,” Frohnmayer
said. “The sub-question is how to
monitor compliance. ”
For now, that question will be an
swered by the FLA and the WRC,
both of which monitor labor condi
tions in factories producing apparel
sold through many universities.
The University will have simulta
neous membership in both groups,
a plan that about 15 other schools
are currently trying.
Frohnmayer admitted at the press
conference that he considered join
ing both groups last spring, but said
the FLA has recently made great
strides to change its practices, in
cluding a new university advisory
committee. He added that he re
viewed student input from last year
about both groups and decided the
FLA had changed enough to war
rant University inclusion.
“The FLA is not the same organi
zation that existed in spring,” he said.
Both the FLA and WRC have
their critics, but the administration
and the student activists who
fought last spring for the WRC are at
odds about which group is best. The
WRC had its first national meeting
in July in New York City, and is not
as far along in the organization
process as the FLA, which is closer
to being able to monitor the work
ing conditions in factories. But stu
dent leaders adamantly disagree
with Frohnmayer’s statements that
the FLA has changed and removed
the apparel industry’s influence on
the FLA board, the primary com
plaint about the organization.
“The FLA cares more about facto
ry owners than factory workers,”
ASUO President Jay Breslow said.
The University president’s deci
sion was also prompted by an inter
im report compiled this summer by
the University Senate Review Pan
el, which was appointed to oversee
committee concerns with member
ship in the WRC. The report, pre
sented to the president on Monday,
recommended that the University
not bind itself to one organization.
The review panel comprises four
faculty members and no students,
but the licensing code of conduct
committee that recommended
Frohnmayer join the WRC last year
had student representation.
Frohnmayer said the addition of
the FLA would help to enforce the
conditions of the licensing code of
conduct and “not lose momentum
by betting on one horse.”
He made his decision to join the
WRC last spring after almost a year
of recommendations from the li
censing code of conduct committee
and the University Senate and a 10
day student protest on the Johnson
Hall lawn. A week after Frohnmay
er signed on, Nike President and
CEO Phil Knight, a University
alumnus, pulled his personal dona
tions from the University.
Frohnmayer said Tuesday that he
made a courtesy call to Knight to in
form him of the FLA decision but it
remains unclear whether Knight
will give money to the University
any time in the future. Kirk Stewart,
vice president of corporate commu
nications at Nike, said the FLA deci
sion does not change Knight’s phil
anthropic association with the
University.
“The FLA has made dramatic
moves in monitoring issues,” said
Duncan McDonald, University vice
president for development and ac
ademic affairs, who attended the
WRC’s national meeting in New
York City earlier this summer. The
next WRC national meeting is
scheduled for Oct. 2.
In Tuesday’s press conference,
Frohnmayer also stressed that the
change doesn’t signal the beginning
of the end for the WRC’s ties with
the University, and Breslow agreed.
“This decision [to join the FLA]
will remain on an entirely different
track,” Frohnmayer said. “It was not
meant to undermine the University
Senate review process [of the WRC]
The choice to join the WRC and
Knight’s reaction brought national
attention to the University. In con
trast, Tuesday’s decision came
quickly and with much less publici
ty, although Frohnmayer stressed
that he took the recommendations
from the past weeks and months un
der consideration. Many who sup
ported the WRC last year were also
vocally against joining the FLA, and
Frohnmayer said he reviewed those
comments again before making his
decision.
But he also made it clear that, ulti
mately, the choice to join was his to
make.
“At some point, the buck does
stop at my desk,” he said.
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commonplace for the new student
body president every time another
development breaks with the work
er’ rights issue on campus.
Members of the Executive defi
nitely know what they’re angry
about — the decision itself, the tim
ing of Frohnmayer’s sudden an
nouncement before the entire stu
dent body was on campus and the
time it will take away from other
projects — but they aren’t exactly
sure what the next step is.
“Since it was dropped on us, it
changes everything,” Breslow said.
“We need some time to decide.”
Breslow was one of hundreds of
students who spent the start of
spring term last year protesting in
front of Johnson Hall for Frohnmay
er to join the Worker Rights Consor
tium, a newer group similar to the
FLA that monitors factories where
University apparel is made. In con
trast to the WRC, the FLA has
gained credibility because it has
been established longer.
For Breslow, the lack of a dia
logue in Frohnmayer’s decision to
sign on with the FLA has been the
biggest disappointment. He said
students were not directly involved
with the decision to join the FLA,
even though Frohnmayer wrote in
a March 29 Emerald column that
the answers to the labor issue “must
be found by all of us, working to
gether.”
“All of a sudden, ‘ding,’ we were
with the FLA,” Breslow said. “But
there’s a key piece left out and that’s
students.”
Frohnmayer said he looked at
previous complaints with the FLA
from last year and thought the group
had changed enough since then to
warrant the University’s approval
and inclusion.
Breslow was also critical of the
president’s decision to announce
the University’s membership with
the FLA before the fall school term
began and while student activists
are busy with other projects.
“He could have announced this
earlier in the summer or in one
week,” he said. “There is no press
ing issue that dictated us signing on
with the FLA this week.”
Both he and Magner admitted
they are worried about the impact
Frohnmayer’s decision will have on
relations between the offices of the
student and administrative presi
dents.
“It’s very difficult to work with
someone you’re frustrated with,”
Magner said. The FLA decision has
diverted her attention from the on
going voter registration campaign
for the November election and from
educating students on local and na
tional issues.
Magner said the Executive cannot
take a stance on the various politi
cal issues so they have to work with
the administration to get as much
information to the students as possi
ble.
“We’re all working together as a
coalition and this is derailing the
entire project,” she said.
The FLA decision has also left the
Executive office to better define its
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