The Government of the Student Body has stepped up and decided to support the core values of Iowa State recently.

They have decided unanimously to encourage Iowa State to join the Worker’s Rights Coalition.

This would keep ISU clothing from being made in sweatshops, something the university cannot currently guarantee. This was a carefully decided course of action that has been in discussion since April, and was acted upon in January. GSB chose to support this because Iowa State charges its students to improve the lives of people worldwide, to become world citizens.

Now students are charging the university to live up to its own values.

Recently ISU Vice President for Business and Finance Warren Madden suggested that GSB needed more information.

I am curious as to what this means.

GSB members have met with directors for the coalition and with workers who have been personally helped because of the involvement of other universities in the coalition.

Furthermore, we have met with Madden and spoken explicitly about what joining the coalition would mean.

GSB does not need more information – it needs the ISU administration to live up to its mission statement to improve lives worldwide.

We are signing up student groups who also support keeping Cy out of sweatshops.

If you are interested in helping Iowa State “Beat the Hawkeyes and not the workers,” you can volunteer by sending me an e-mail at [email protected].ÿ

Jonathan Mullin

Graduate student senator

Government of the Student Body