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While I admire the idealism of students who have embarked on a hunger strike to support the demands of Harvard’s security guards, I think the protest is misguided. Basic economics dictates that the more each worker is paid, the fewer workers will be hired. Raising the wages of security guards who already have jobs could shut the door on the poor and unemployed...
Harvard is wealthy, but even the rich face trade-offs, and spending more on security guards could mean spending less on something else that may be of far greater value to the university—and the poor. Furthermore, at a university where so many avenues exist to register protest, embarking on a hunger strike is rash and self-destructive, and encouraging others to do so is cynical and manipulative...
...nine students staging a hunger strike in protest of the wages paid to Harvard’s security guards ended their nine-day fast on Friday afternoon...
Students Launch Fast for Guards (May 4, 2007): Around 20 people—including students and other members of the Harvard community—protest in front of Mass. Hall, marking the kickoff of a widely publicized hunger strike aimed at convincing the University to support better working conditions for security guards...
...shrugged. "It's a good place." He nodded toward the red fabric wall of protest slogans. "A person has a right to express himself. This is a democratic society - much better than in mainland China...