Badaracco said he thinks the committee is moving towards a "common understanding on to how to draw a boundary around tobacco activities."
"The original boundary was drawn around cigarette manufacturers, but then there's the H.B. Fuller-type cases," he said. "My guess is that this year the committee might be able to specify some criteria [to decide similar issues]."
Ali Ahsan '99, also a member of last year's ACSR, said it is difficult to draw a line.
"There's a slippery slope argument," he said. "If the ASCR sticks to this point it's possible CCSR might redraw the line. It could take a couple of years."
Labor
"I think that the whole [ACSR] committee has been pretty strong on anti-sweatshop standards," said Donahue.
"Sometimes there might have been a 'no' vote on a specific proposal, but often that would be because the proposal would be badly worded or premature, presuming the failure of the ongoing coalition effort," he said, referring to a joint effort between the White House and private industry attempting to set up codes of conduct.
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