A handful of Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) members braved blustering winds and Holyoke Center guards yesterday in a series of unannounced holiday-themed visits to University administrators.

Student protesters delivered frosted cookies and cards to Mass. Hall, to Holyoke Center and to Loeb House--where the Harvard Corporation meets--to protest Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by companies like Nike to monitors working conditions in foreign apparel factories.

HSAS members criticize FLA because it includes representation on its governing board from the companies it is intends to supervise.

HSAS urges Harvard, instead, to join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a group run by labor and human rights organizations.

Yesterday's demonstration was relatively low-key.

"It wasn't supposed to be a huge action, just something fun for the holidays," said HSAS member Benjamin M. Stoll '03.

HSAS met early yesterday morning to begin decorating 12 dozen cookies with "WRC" in red, green and white frosting.

They stood outside the Science Center throughout the morning, asking passers-by to sign holiday cards that urged Harvard to improve monitoring of the factories that produce Harvard apparel.