Word: hungering
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...nine remaining students staging a hunger strike in protest of the wages and benefits offered to Harvard's outsourced security guards ended their nine-day fast on Friday afternoon...
...hunger strike was part of a series of efforts organized by the coalition, including daily rallies in the Yard, aimed at pressuring the University to intervene in contract negotiations between the security guards' union and AlliedBarton, the subcontractor that employs the guards...
...Wednesday afternoon, a second undergraduate participating in the strike was hospitalized for dangerously low sodium levels. Matthew A. Opitz ’10 was admitted to Mount Auburn Hospital and placed on intravenous saline solution. He was released at 5:30 p.m. and is continuing with the hunger strike, according to a statement released by the Stand for Security Coalition...
...rally yesterday, Benjamin Landau-Biespiel ’10 said that hunger strikers were being threatened with the prospect of losing their College housing if they did not go to University Health Services every day to receive checkups...
...Director of Communications for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Robert Mitchell, after speaking with College administrators, said, “There is no plan at this point to deny students housing who are involved in this hunger strike...