Left Loses Cola Crusade at Loyola
Almost one month ago, I wrote of an ensuing battle at Loyola University Chicago, the city’s Jesuit university. The “Campaign to Stop Killer Coke,” a fringe leftist organization wielding scurrilous accusations of misconduct by Colombian Coca-Cola bottlers, was unable to boot Coca-Cola off the Loyola campus. In a university-wide email sent on Monday afternoon, Loyola students were informed of President Rev. Michael J. Garanzini’s decision to accept his Vending Committee’s recommendation extending Coca-Cola’s contract past its July 2008 expiration.
In addition to extending the Coca-Cola contract, Loyola inked a new contract with Cadbury Schweppes, which produces such drinks as 7UP and Dr. Pepper. Turning back the Left, this decision kept Coca-Cola beverages and added more choice to the free market. This isn’t the first time the anti-Coke movement has come up short on Chicago campuses. In 2006, it lost a year-long battle at DePaul University. The largest Catholic university in ... Read More...
