Cornell Students Against Sweatshops continued its fight against the Fair Labor Association, an anti-sweatshop group CSAS claims has failed to crack down on international labor abuses, in a talk Wednesday with FLA Executive Director Jorge Perez-Lopez.

The owner of the defunct Green Café in Collegetown has been fined nearly one million dollars by the New York State Department of Labor for unfair treatment of workers at both his Ithaca establishment and a still-operating deli in New York City, the Tompkins County Workers’ Center announced Thursday.

Cornell’s newly-founded Licensing Oversight Committee hit the ground running in its first meeting Tuesday, pledging to renew business relations with Russell Athletics and investigating the abuses alleged by two aggrieved former Honduran workers for Nike, both of whom spoke at the University on Tuesday.

Overgrown quads crawling with ticks. Cracked sidewalks unplowed in mid-winter: impassable. Showers caked with inch-thick mold. Classrooms dusty, dirty and unkempt. Dorm bathrooms still reeking of last weekend’s now-hardened vomit. Dining hall buffets empty. Scared, starved students calling out to mommy in bewilderment. A university unhinged, rendered inert.

This description of life without Cornell workers is overly dramatic, of course. A lame attempt at shock and awe. But what would become of our school without the services provided by these workers? How much are their services worth?