Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three chaplains have decided not to discuss their fast with the press, but some student activists have said they want to publicize the fast...
According to Sandy Guben, a student divestment activist, in deference the chaplains wishes, no violent action would result from the fast. But she added, "We're all angry that the chaplains have to do this to themselves...
...week-long fast is the third phase of a plan by the Chaplaincy of Brandeis University to pressure the Waltham school to divest of its $1.5 million in South Africa-related investments. Students were encouraged to join in the first two phases of protest, which consisted of skipping meals. The money from the missed meals is going to Oxfam America...
...Hose said that student support for the fast is widespread. "The range of political opinion [at Brandeis] runs from left-of-center to radical left," he said...
...crazy. Before you know it, you're one of them." He keeps a tear in the left seam of his pants, just below the pocket; when he panhandles among commuters, he tells them that his subway fare fell out of his pants. When that fails, he wanders past fast-food outlets, waiting for a large group eating near the door to get up and leave. Then he snatches the remaining food off the table and heads down the street, smiling all the more if the food is still warm. At night he sleeps in the subway stations, catnapping between police...