Concerned students boycott Coca-Cola
Ryan Yuk / The Dartmouth Staff The beginnings of a student-run campaign to raise awareness about alleged inhumane practices of the Coca-Cola company, with which Dartmouth Dining Services is contracted, jump-started this week as the culminating project for a Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies class called "Latinos in the '60s: Beyond Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll." According to students in the class, the main contention points are Coke's use of Colombian bottlers who employ death squads to keep workers from unionizing and Coke's privatization of water in India, especially in poor, rural areas. The students' focus is on raising enough student support to provoke Student Assembly legislation requesting dialogue with the administration around the College's contract with Coca-Cola. "We want to discuss what are our options, what should we be doing as a socially conscious campus and working with [the administration]," class member Lena Martinez-Watts '08 said.
