Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a four-day hunger strike to protest the vacancy of a U.S.-Latino studies tenure-track position at Williams College, 31 students reached a compromise with faculty and administrators late last night...
...satisfied, but would not disclose the nature of the agreement reached after a three-hour meeting that ended at 11:15 p.m. The details of the compromise will be officially released today by noon, at which time the students, who have consumed only water since Saturday, will end their hunger strike...
...What we've asked for has in no way been met, but we have established that there's no more need for a hunger strike to continue the dialogue...and the struggle," said Tanya Nunoz, a senior who has been on a hunger strike since Saturday...
...group decided this [hunger strike] was the only way we could be taken seriously," said junior Anim W. Steel, who is participating in the hunger strike...
...three students at Williams went on a hunger strike to create the tenure-track post. And although two visiting professors have been teaching U.S.-Latino courses since then, the position has never been filled