March 17, 2000

Duke U. Withdraws Licenses to Some Apparel Manufacturers

By NINA WILLDORF

Duke University last week withdrew rights to manufacture apparel bearing the university's logo from 28 companies, because the companies would not disclose the locations of their factories.

After a sit-in by a Duke student group, Students Against Sweatshops, in January 1999, all 409 companies that produce campus apparel for Duke were required to disclose their factories' locations by this January as part of a code of conduct agreed upon by administrators and

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