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companies that can prove they can
do the job and aren’t doing anything
illegal. All other factors that could
include the condition of the compa
ny’s factories can no longer be a fac
tor for a university to chose a busi
ness partner.
The University is the only insti
tution in the OUS that is a member
of the WRC.
University General Counsel Melin
da Grier said she has been reviewing
the policy since the middle of last
week, and while she said she will not
totally understand its impact until
the end of the week, she did confirm
it essentially means the University
can not be a member of the WRC.
“I don’t see how we can join [the
WRC] and comply with the board’s
policy,” she said.
She added the University’s code
of conduct may also be in conflict
with the new guidelines.
Despite the policy’s dramatic ef
fect on the labor issue, Grier said she
has heard the decision was not
prompted by the WRC dispute. She
said the policy is the board’s at
tempt to keep state schools from us
ing their political weight as leverage
in business deals, which she said is
in conflict with the public nature of
universities.
“As public entities, [universities]
should be impartial,” she said.
OUS board member and Universi
ty student Tim Young said he was the
lone dissenting vote on the policy,
and expressed his frustration at the
way the board handled the issue.
“It was such a broad issue, the
way that it was treated ... it was a lit
tle misleading,” he said.
Young said the board should have
offered more opportunities for stu
dents and other university members
to join in on the debate over the pol
icy, rather than simply making the
decision at the meeting.
OUS Chancellor Joe Cox could
not be reached for comment on the
policy.
Young said the decision was in
direct response to the WRC issue
and is a means for the OUS to avoid
having to make a decision on the la
bor issue.
“It’s a way for the OUS to not an
swer the question,” he said.
Young said he was also against
the policy because it denies univer
sities the chance to use their influ
ence in political causes. He said is
sues will continually arise where
universities can provide a strong
voice, and now that voice has been
muzzled.
“It’s unfortunate that we can’t be
in that capacity,” he said.
The University has been involved
with the WRC since last April when
student protests helped prompt the
University to join the group. The
University joined the FLA at the be
ginning of this academic year.
While the University is a member
of both groups, a faculty committee
has been studying the issues associ
ated with labor monitoring, which
has remained a key campus issue
even though some of the activist fer
vor of last year has abated.
Part of the reason why the Univer
sity’s involvement in the WRC has
been so controversial is because one
of the University’s largest donors,
Nike co-founder Phil Knight, severed
all his ties with the University be
cause it joined the WRC.
That action left many supporters
convinced that the University would
never make it through the first year of
its membership in the WRC.
Associate professor and director
of the Honors College David Frank
has been leading the committee
studying the issues surrounding la
bor monitoring and said he is not
sure what the committee will do in
light of the board’s new policy.
“I am still thinking about what
the committee ought to do,” he said.
“The next question should be, what
should the University do?”
He said the response to the policy
has been mixed among faculty
members, some were pleased by the
decision and others frustrated.
Some faculty members were “quite
concerned” about what the policy
may mean for the University’s code
of conduct, he said.
Even though the decision has
ended the labor debate, Frank said
he was not discouraged by the poli
cy. He said the decision changed the
issue from simply involving the
University and the WRC to some
thing all the state’s universities
could have a voice in.
“I think it moves it to a different
plane, the state board plane,” he said.
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and Vice President Holly Magner,
took positions in student govern
ment after the protest, trying to fight
for the WRC on a different scale.
Breslow and Magner could not
be reached for comment.
But as University members and
lawyers decipher whether this rule
marks the true end for labor moni
toring groups such as the WRC and
FLA on campus, next year’s ASUO
Executive will have to deal with
the workers’ rights issues.
Executive candidates Bret Jacob
son and Matt Cook, who are run
ning on a platform of removing the
University’s ties with the WRC,
said the board’s decision is a step
in the right direction.
But, if elected, Jacobson said he
will continue the work to mend re
lations between the University and
the alumni, which were hurt when
Nike CEO and alumnus Phil
Knight angrily pulled his personal
donations to the school, in wake of
the decision to join the WRC.
“We feel completely vindicated
by the decision,” Jacobson said.
“This is one more symbolic mes
sage.”
But candidate Nilda Brooklyn
disagreed and said the University
must enlist the help of labor moni
toring groups. As a member of
Breslow’s executive staff this year,
Brooklyn has worked on the issue
and Breslow’s adamant stance of
remaining in the WRC.
She said that, if elected, her ad
ministration would examine the
University’s original code of con
duct and see how it could be al
tered to include the involvement
of groups like the WRC.
Sullivan added that he’s not
sure how the student activist com
munity will react to the news, but
he hopes it will be stronger than
the mild student response after
previous decisions.
“I hope it will cause some up
roar,” he said. “This should make
people very angry.”
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