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Joseph Weaver, Daily Staff Writer
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The word "Anti-Sweatshop" was written in black spray paint along the west side wall of the Administration Building, which faces the Instructional Resources Center.
The letter A in Anti-Sweatshop was written with a circle around it, which is known as a symbol for anarchy.
The act of vandalism was called into the University Police Department at 5:19 a.m. on Sunday, according to Gail Hernandez of the Facilities Development and Operations' customer service department.
"We get on these things as soon as we can," Hernandez said.
The Facilities Development and Operations department is in charge of taking care of all maintenance on campus.
The graffiti was removed on Tuesday afternoon.
A few students who saw the graffiti had differing reactions to the message they saw.
"I saw it this morning on my way to class in Dudley Moorhead Hall," said junior economics major Wendy Talbot. "I've read some stuff about sweatshops and SJSU clothes, but I didn't think much else about it when I saw it."
Another student saw the vandalism in a different light.
"I think it's kind of cool," said senior political science major Brent Takemoto. "I mean it's not cool that people vandalize, but things are usually pretty tame around here. Having some kind of protest movement or something like that around here is cool."
UPD was unavailable for comment on the incident.
The issue of sweatshops producing university-logo clothing has become a hot-point recently.
Among the protests have been fliers around campus that inform students that sweatshop labor has been used to manufacture clothing with SJSU logos on them.
Another sign of the protest are pink buttons that say, "Bob (Caret), Just sign it. WRC NOW!"
The WRC is the Worker Rights Consortium.
The Worker Rights Consortium's purpose, according to their Web site, is to assist in the enforcement of manufacturing codes of conduct adopted by colleges and universities.
These codes, they describe, are designed to ensure that factories producing clothing and other goods bearing college and university names respect the basic rights of workers.
Currently, there are 95 universities in the United States that have agreed with the WRC.
Among the universities that have agreed to it are all of the University of California system schools.
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anonymous852
posted 4/04/02 @ 3:30 PM PST
In regards to the anti-sweatshop feelings on this campus, Does anybody know the other side of the story?
There is so much said about how sweatshops are bad but hasn't anybody thought about how they're good? I know this might upset a lot of people but I believe that most people are also ignorant and hard headed about the topic as well, I know because I once thought about sweatshops as just "bad" and "unfair. (Continued…)
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