In a rare question-and- answer session with reporters, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley on Thursday held forth on a half-dozen issues making waves on campus now, sharply parting ways with students on more than a few of them.
On sweatshop labor, for instance, Wiley said some of his student critics “wildly exaggerate” the pressure that UW- Madison or any one university can put on the worldwide apparel industry to curb widely acknowledged worker abuses.
“All the universities in the country don’t have the buying power of one Wal-Mart,” he said, adding later, “The only way we can make progress is to continue to work together.”