Word: hungerers
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Over the course of nine days, the hunger strikers lived off nothing more than water and Gatorade, at times drinking more than eight liters of fluid per day. Water coolers kept on being refilled to ensure that none of the students became dehydrated...
...hunger strike continued, the all-fluid diet began to take its toll on some of the students...
...night before the hunger strike ended, Opitz said he started to feel increasingly nauseated and woozy. He slowly paced across his room, sneaking glances at the clock every so often. Without any indication that the strike would, in fact, end the following day, he wondered how much his body had been through since he had stopped eating...
More than anything, the hunger strike was psychologically exacting. Though the hunger strikers noted that there was a large number of students who demonstrated their support—either by showing up at the daily 1 p.m. rallies or stopping by to chat—there were also those who continually criticized the students’ actions...
After sitting outside in their makeshift camp across from Mass. Hall for most of the day, some of the protestors would return to find their inboxes flooded with messages highly critical of the hunger strike. Kyle A. Krahel ’08 said that comments discrediting the hunger strike and questioning the strikers’ motives were “mentally challenging to read...