"We certainly intend to continue to be loud and to continue to be forceful," he says. "But a sit-in would only be a last resort after we were convinced that there was no way to go forward with the administration."

New Tactics

And PSLM is currently using innovative tactics to bring the sweatshop issue to center stage.

Earlier this month, members staged two "street theater" shows in front of the Science Center to protest Harvard's joining of an IUI with University of California and the University of Notre Dame.

The schools have hired as an independent monitor PricewaterhouseCoopers, a large accounting company with business and consulting interests in numerous garment factories, which PSLM members feel is a conflict of interest.

To illustrate this dissatisfaction, part of the street theater show featured PricewaterhouseCoopers climbing into bed with a garment company.

Likely, through the end of this year and the beginning of next year, students at Harvard and other schools will continue to press the issue. They say collective action is the key to putting this issue in the national spotlight.

"I think probably more than even the gains we made about the policy...was the publicity we brought to the issue," Cornell says, citing coverage in Time, Business Week, USA Today, US News and World Report and The New York Times.