Word: hungering
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...important perspective on the role and responsibilities of such positions. Similarly, students deserve to be judged by their peers alongside faculty and administrators when they are summoned before the Administrative Board.Furthermore, Harvard’s bureaucracy ought to be far more transparent and navigable to the average concerned student. Hunger strikes and protests should not be the only means by which student activists think they can get the administration’s attention. Students with legitimate concerns about the university’s policies or practices should have clear ways to voice them and a staff of administrators who actively...
...hunger strike is a classic protest ultimatum—the gastronomical equivalent of Patrick Henry’s famous cry, “Give me liberty or give me death!” At least, so I’d thought until the technique found its milder cousin in the 10 members of the Stand For Security coalition—it was 11 until one withdrew—who are currently refusing all sustenance (except two daily cups of Gatorade) until Harvard complies with their demands. Or until they get really, really hungry and have to stop. The coalition?...
Seven days into a hunger strike aimed at getting higher wages for Harvard's security guards, a second undergraduate participating in the strike was hospitalized for dangerously low sodium levels. Meanwhile, about 25 students held a candlelight vigil outside of Interim President Derek C. Bok's home in hopes of pressuring the University to intervene in contract negotiations for the workers. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Matthew A. Opitz '10 was admitted to Mount Auburn hospital at around 2 p.m. Wednesday 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 Stand for Security Coalition, the group leading the campaign for higher wages...
...After meeting with the other hunger strikers and security guards, they have told me that our struggle has received substantial attention," Castro wrote in a statement posted on the Stand for Security Web site. "Given my medical condition, the recent victories that we have managed to achieve, and the broad support that we have been able to mobilize, I have decided to end my fast...