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  SCA: Out of Hand?
Rebuttal to very dumb articles in MH News.  by Alexa Encarnacion '02 and Autumn Gonzalez '02
In last week’s MH News, Liz Norrick ’05 and Kate Mulligan ’04 attempted to slander the campaigns and goals of the SCA.... 
The Offending Article
by Autumn Gonzalez '02
"The company misclassifies the workers as 'independent contractors'...The company, Optimum, is able to save a lot of money by doing this, but the workers pay for it..."
Prisons-- And Dining Services (?!)
by Autumn Gonzalez '02
Recently, the News published an article wherein a student complained about the Fair Labor Code of Conduct’s stipulation against prison labor. 
 
  The Optimum Problem
by Autumn Gonzalez '02
Optimum was fined for the following violations: not keeping records of time worked, not paying wages weekly, requiring workers to purchase their own Worker’s Compensation and liability insurance, and other violations... 
Sweatshops: What You Need to Know
by Eesha Pandit '03
Contrary to what the largest and most powerful multinational corporations would have us believe; sweatshops are not a necessary by-product of economic growth.
Socially Responsible Investment and MHC: Putting Money where the Morals Are
by Clare Robbins '04
Why do poor communities remain poor? One major factor is the problem of absentee ownership in low-income communities. 
  The Ogoni Crisis
by Ioli Christopoulou '01
"Their revenue has been degradation of their water and soil resources, pollution, health defects and political suppression and violent reaction by the government."
Alexa's Ramble
by Alexa Encarnacion '02
First of all, I am sick and tired of MHC women who claim to care, and are liberals, and never do anything to help the cause they ‘care’ about. 
SCA Critique “Out of Hand”
by Autumn Gonzalez ’02
Poorly researched pieces give us the opportunity to present our position, although admittedly, the argument is getting dull...
 
  Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability Cannot Exist Separately by Laura Norton-Cruz '04
"These two issues are often portrayed as antagonistic, both by Marxists...or by environmentalists...."
 
Exposing the Campus Left So That Girls Like Us May Live in Prada-Wearing Peace 
By Candi O’Slander ’02
Hi!  Fellow girls!  If you’re like me, you’ve had it up to your cute ‘lil chin with the dull and dubious rhetoric of the campus liberals...
 The Taliban, the War
by Sarah Humayun ‘04
"What I want to say is this: the Afghan situation shows the stupidity of believing that you can use the political problems..for your own ends, and then wash your hands of it."
 
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