Sweaty Consciousness: The Students Against Sweatshop Movement
             SAS not SDS is a new acronym for a new generation of student activists. "Students Against Sweatshops" may not have yet received the same attention as their "Students for a Democratic Society" predecessors, but they have been noticed:
             "While in the sixties the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War infused the student movement with a keen awareness of racial oppression and the excesses of the state and its military machine, the new radicals of the nineties are starting out where the sixties left off: with a probing critique of the economic system, informed by an understanding of its gender and racial dimensions."
             A vast network of Student Against Sweatshops organization have been cultivating on campuses across North America, and have received support and inspiration from other anti-sweatshop groups and labour organizations. Their primary goal is calling upon on College and University administrations to regulate their lucrative business partnerships with code of conducts, in order to improve the sweatshop conditions of factories making University apparel. These code of conducts provide enforceable standards for wages, working hours, health and safety, child labour, nondiscrimination, harassment, and freedom or association. The basic idea is that either university licensees conform to a code, or the contract is cancelled. Many American Universities, such as Columbia, Duke, and Notre Dame, already have a code of conduct in place. On the Canadian front, the University of Toronto began the process of implementing a code in May, and hand full of other universities, like Concordia, Guelph, Queen's and Western are currently holding campaigns. The SAS of Carleton University was scheduled a meeting with the Board of Governors about the possibility of a code of conduct this past November, but it has been delayed until the new year. Administratio...