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Monday. July 13, 1998 The Michigan Daily - 7

Fit o a sj a x sa

Crime
down'
across
state
By Stephanie Offen
D~aily Stifl Reporter
With strong prevention efforts, rigor-
ous enforcement of laws and new bills
being written to make the state tougher
on crime, which in Michigan has
dropped to lowest level since 1969.
"Violent criminals are now staying in
prison longer," said John Truscott, press
secretary for Governor Engler. "It is a
small number of people who commit
those crimes, and when they are behind
bars those crimes won't happen."
The crime level has dropped 24 per-
cent since 1991, with burglaries being
at their lowest since 1965. Robberies
are at their lowest since 1966, with
larcernies and rapes at their lowest
since 1973 and 1982, respectively.
Even with these statistics, attempts to
curb crime are still strong, Truscott said.
"There are still a lot of crimes com-
mitted in Michigan," Truscott said.
"This by'no means signals an end to

Students fight against
sweatshop apparel

DPS Officer Keith Curtis gives an honorary junior police officer badge to Nicholas
ivingston at the Top of the Park festival last week.
our efforts" around campus to watch and protect.
The decline in crime at the DPS officers also attend new student
statewide level has had a direct effect orientation sessions to make sure stu-
on the University. dents are familiar with campus safety.
The crime rate at the University has "Crime prevention has always been
been steadily dropping, largely due to important at the University," Hall said.
prevention, education and people keep- "But we are now starting to focus
ing track of their property, officers said. more on these specific programs."
"DPS has been working closely with Larceny is the most common crime
the community to prevent crime," said on campus. Even with the decrease in
Beth Hall, public information director crime in the area, it is still important
for DPS. "We have set up many pro- that all students take proper precau-
grams to help with this prevention." tions with their belongings, Hall said.
One program, Building Watch, is a Hall cited an increase in computer
neighborhood watch program set up to theft as one exception in the recent
monitor University-owned buildings. crime drop trend.
Hall said another recently created pro- "I encounige people to ID their com-
gram called the Community Oriented puters so they can be identified if they
Policy assigns officers to specific areas are stolen," Hall said.

By Dante Mastri
Daily Staff Reporter
University students joined partici-
pants from 30 universities across the
United States in travelling to New Yo k
last weekend to exchange information
and ideas on collegiate anti-sweatshop
movements.
After sharing success stories of anti-
sweatshop efforts at their own univr-
sities, students are attempting to found
a national student organization and
create a more collective front fort
future activism.
"The idea developed out of the
desire to get universities to take
responsibility for the products they
buy," said Laura McSpedon, a.
Georgetown student.
Representatives from the
Collegiate Licensing Company, a
go-between for universities and
manufacturers, also attended the
conference to discuss the possibility
of adopting a code of conduct for
the 160 schools it represents.
Codes of conduct will determine the
workplace conditions and standards
CLC companies must meet before
selling their merchandise to CLC
schools.
Of the 160 schools, the CLC chose
non-student representatives from 13
schools, including the University, to
create a task force to discuss the codes
of conduct.
Participants said the CLlC has
opposed student involvement in task
force decision-making.
"The CLC has been meeting since
March or April, but there has been a lot
of resistance to having students
involved," McSpedon said.
But students said their own partici-
pation is crucial to creating an effective
anti-sweatshop code.
"The most important thing thatt
might come out of this conference is
that students will be involved in the
future of the CLC" said Tico Almeida,
a Duke student.
Debbie Kolben, an LSA setior,
also said the conference is an oppor-
tunity to unify the students across the
country. "Ideally, we will get unity
between all of the universities,"
Kolben said.
ARRESTS
Continued from Page 1
demonstrators as "astonishing."
"There is a tremendous witch-hunt
taking place by the Ann Arbor govern-
ment' Massie said.
Several NWROC members
denounced the way in which police had
carried out the arrests, as well as police
attempts to charge anti-Klan forces
while protecting the Klan.
"The police went into this woman's
house and arrested her at five in the
morning," said Caroline Wong, an
NWROC organizer. "They've been
going out and trying to intimidate anti-
Klan forces"
Luke Massie did not deny the "acts"
widb which NWROC members have

Students expressed concern that the
CLC task force will create a weak
code.
"A poorly written code with weak
enforcement mechanisms will only
serve as a cover for the companies
instead of a mneans to force them to
improve the conditions in their facto-
ries" Almeida said.
Rackham student Eric Dirnbach
stressed the importance of outside mon-
itoring agencies.
"Independent monitoring by groups
unrelated to the financial operations of
the companies is crucial to the success
of any code of conduct," Dirnbach
said.
Duke University announced a code
of conduct, but the details of the mon-
itoring process still remain to be
decided upon.
"Although we announced a code at
Duke, the monitoring process has not
been finalized," Almeida said. "And
monitoring is the key to a good code of
conduct."
To make the monitoring process
more effective, students said compa-
nies should post the locations of facto-
ries.
"We would like to have the names
and addresses of factories available to
the public," McSpedon said. "That has
been heavily resisted by the compa-
nies."
With factory location informa-
tion, independent groups could ran-
domly evaluate factory work envi-
ronments.
Since last summer, students have
worked to force their universities to
adopt codes of conduct to ensure that
university-licensed goods are being
produced under adequate working
conditions.
But many schools "are not creating
their own code of conduct but instead
are waiting for the ruling from the
CLC," McSpedon said.
Kolben and Dirnbach have been
involved in an anti-Nike campaign on
campus since last autumn.
"We started last October by question-
ing the Nike contract" Dirnabach said.
It started out as an anti-Nike campaign,
but the entire apparel industry is a
sweatshop industry'"
been charged ht clled tem "egligible
in the face of government reaction He
said their trial strategy would be to appeal
to the jury, adding that he doubted the
prosecution could summonjurors willing
to find the defendants guilty.
"We're going to speak to the jury
about what an outrage it is to spend
hundreds of thousands on prosecuting
anti-racists' he said.
No arrests were made at the time
of the rally. Police have since
reviewed video footage and pho-
tographs of the evnt and managed to
identify suspects
NWROC organizers said Luke
Massie and Driver will surrender to
police next Tuesday, at which time
the group will hield a press confer-
ence and provost.

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