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       President Wethington said that Luke Boyett is a student from Henderson County in
Kentucky and asked him to make his presentation.

       Mr. Boyett thanked President Wethington and the Chairman of the Board for having the
students at the meeting. He also thanked the entire Board for giving the students their attention
and being very open to what the students have to say. Additionally, he thanked Monica Grant
for her assistance with the PowerPoint presentation and also all of the students and supporters in
the audience.

       Mr. Boyett stated that he was a student representing for the moment UK Students Against
Sweatshops, which includes not only the more vocal and active students the Board has seen and
heard about on campus but also over 1,000 students who have signed petitions in support of their
campaign over the course of the last month.

       Mr. Boyett said he would like to briefly explain, in the short amount of time he has, why
the students think this is an important issue, what they have been doing about this issue in the
course of the last year, why they think the Worker Rights Consortium is an important
organization for the University to join, and talk about establishing a process by which they can
further discuss the issue and start coming to decisions at the table together.

       Mr. Boyett gave the following presentation:

       "Why is this an important issue to us? I think I can speak to this pretty well. Personally,
I traveled to El Salvador this past August with student representatives from five other
universities around the country. We went there to speak with workers in their homes, outside of
the factories, on the streets; attempting to get into some factories to see conditions; speaking with
human's rights leaders in the region; speaking with academics at the University of Central
America in El Salvador. And we kept hearing the same things over and over. We kept hearing
about what we traditionally associate with the word sweatshop: we heard about 70-, 80-, 90-hour
work-weeks; unpaid overtime; we heard about wages that were so abysmal that workers could
not feed their children on anything but coffee and beans because they couldn't afford anything
else. We heard about continual verbal and physical abuse within the factories, sometimes sexual
abuse of the women. In fact, many of the workers in these factories are young women much the
same age of myself and the other students here. In fact, 90% of the workers in El Salvador in the
apparel factories are women and the same goes for many of the other countries in producing
regions. We heard about bathrooms that were locked or dysfunctional. We heard about lack of
ventilation. We heard about workers who had chronic carpal tunnel syndrome because of the
inhuman production standards that were set for them. They were expected to, at times, produce
up to 5,000 pieces of clothing a day. Can you imagine producing 5,000 pieces of clothing a day?
It's beyond my comprehension and I imagine yours as well. So, basically, we were hearing the
same thing from every worker we were talking to, that these conditions are abysmal; these
conditions are absolutely horrid, and yes, we need these jobs but they can be better.

      Corporations and companies can do business responsibly and we think they have a
responsibility to do that. That is what workers were telling us. And I think it's really important
that we note that many of these workers, like I said, are the same age as the students here. These
are the same workers who are at the same point in their life, many of them well-educated I might