NYU recently became the twentieth U.S. college to ban Coca-Cola products from its campus.

Representatives from NYU initially requested an investigation into possible employee mistreatment at a Columbian bottling plant. When the popular soda company refused to comply, NYU responded by removing, and banning, all Coca-Cola products from campus.

More from The New York Times:

New York University will begin removing Coca-Cola products from campus Friday after enacting a campus-wide ban on the Atlanta-based company's products Thursday because it failed to comply with university demands for an independent investigation into alleged labor violations at its Colombian bottling plant.

The University Senate voted 28-10 to enact the ban Nov. 3, almost two years after student activists from the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke at NYU began lobbying for Coca-Cola to agree to a third-party investigation of the company's alleged role in the killings of union organizers in Colombia. NYU's chapter of the nationwide campaign has been pivotal in pressuring NYU legislative bodies to ban Coca-Cola products.

Junior Dave Hancock, who has been active in the campaign since its start at NYU, said he is gratified that the university enacted the ban, but an independent third-party investigation of the company's campaign is the campaign's actual goal.

"All along, our real desire was for this independent third[-party] inquiry," Hancock said. "We want unbiased information, and Coke stood in the way of that."

Whether or not you agree with the ban, it is refreshing to see college students working together to accomplish something they believe in. It's a nice reminder of what the true benefit of a higher education should be.