According to Allan A. Ryan, an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel, the University has worked with PSLM to draft a policy that would make clear that Harvard goods must not to be made in sweatshops.

But Ryan stressed the difficulty in achieving full disclosure.

"When you get down to the question of where the thread is being manufactured for caps that's the point the we just have no hope of ever getting into," he added.

Ryan said the University will release a code of conduct to the public as soon as there is a way of monitoring and enforcing it. He did not have a specific date in mind.

Both Ryan and Hennfeld, along with Benjamin O. Shuldiner '99, will attend a forum next week in Washington, D.C. called "No Sweat University."

Organized by the U.S. Department of Labor, the forum will provide an opportunity for college students, university officials and licensing companies to talk about codes of conduct to prevent labor abuses.

"The Department of Labor has been involved in this since the beginning of the Clinton Administration. What we're going to do now is tap into the activism on campus," said Carl Fillichio in the Office of Public Affairs in the Department of Labor.

Hennefeld is equally optimistic about the conference, but he said he hopes the student perspective will be heard.

"I think this forum is a great thing, but we want to make sure that important issues like full disclosure are not glossed over," he said.