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. 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