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EMILIE ROSENBLATT, Columbia University senior, on the end of a 10-day student hunger strike. The action was aimed at reforming the curriculum to include more ethnic studies and preventing university expansion into Harlem...
...strike-weary French commuters head into their second week of minimal public transportation, many of them ask why the previously omnipresent Sarkozy has gone missing in this critical moment of his presidency. "He's quite simply waiting for the right time to step in," said Elysée spokesman David Martinon in response to questions about Sarkozy's delay in wading into a conflict that depends on his action...
Last spring, Harvard undergraduates staged a hunger strike to protest the wages of University security guards. One of their number, striker Kelly L. Lee ’07. told the Crimson she often wondered: “Am I doing the right thing? Is this the most effective strategy?” Good questions. Unfortunately, she evidently arrived at the wrong conclusion. The severity of the hunger strike as a tool of political protest cannot be overstated; It ought to only be employed in matters of proportional gravity. By this criterion, the 10-day strike initiated by Columbia undergraduates, which...
...leading foreign diplomats, including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, has visited Beirut as part of an intense diplomatic effort to bridge the divide between both parties. France has spearheaded those efforts and, on Monday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was in Beirut for another attempt to strike a deal. But his efforts appeared to be in vain. A visibly frustrated Kouchner blamed unnamed parties for derailing the negotiations. "Everybody was agreed [on the process]. Everybody said they had agreed. Now I'm amazed, France is amazed, that something is stuck, something is blocked, something is derailed, and I would...
Students at three universities went on strike this week to advocate for a variety of causes—including increasing curricular diversity, reducing student fees, and halting environmentally-unsound campus construction. Protests at Columbia University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst echo events at Harvard last May, when members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) fasted to influence university security guards’ contract negotiations. But while students across the country lobby for different changes and interests, most are met with little or slow change. According to the Daily...