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Monday, July 16, 2007
The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com

ADIDAS
From page 3
sity input in designing sideline out-
fits for the team's coach and staff
- a change from the same outfits
Nike supplies every collegiate team
it sponsors.
Two Adidas employees will han-
dle the University's account and
stay on site to respond to outfitting
problems, he said.
Nike, the sports-apparel com-
pany with the collegiate contracts
nationwide, assigned one execu-
tive to the University who also

supervised several other universi-
ties' contracts and wasn't always
available to address unexpected
glitches.
Martin said the Adidas contract
also contains "term aspects that
will have financial impact down
the road."
Stipulated in the agreement,
Winters said, is the University's
right to renew a contract with
Adidas maintaining the same
conditions, annual adjustment
for cost-of-living estimates and
a "favored-nation" clause, which
allows the University to demand
any terms that Adidas offers

another university.
Martin said Adidas consented
in the agreement to allow the Uni-
versity to more easily monitor the
labor standards of factories the
company utilizes.
"Our inspections office wanted
to have greater access to global
factories where Adidas products
are manufactured," he said.
LSA junior Blase Kearney, a
member of Students Organizing
for Labor and Economic Equal-
ity, said the agreement's inspec-
tion stipulations alone do not
assure that factories Adidas uses
will maintain fair labor practices

because the University has to act if
misconduct is detected.
Kearney said Adidas has the
same standards as Nike for work-
ing conditions in the factories it
uses.
"Nike has always been the tar-
get, but Adidas is basically the
same company," he said.
Former University President
James Duderstadt told The Michi-
gan Daily in 2005 that he regret-
ted making the initial sponsorship
deal with Nike in 1994 because
the move further commercialized
Michigan athletics, putting an
emphasis on money rather than

education.
In a telephone interview last
week, Duderstadt said he approves
of the University's new deal with
Adidas.
OTHER UNIVERSITIES
WITH ADIDAS
" University of Notre Dame
" University of California at Los Angeles
" University of Tennessee
" University of Indiana
" University of Nebraska
" University of Wisconsin
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