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...Despite its lack of physical confrontation, the strikers?? nine-day effort was one of the most prodigious protests by Harvard students in decades. According to Crimson archives, the last time undergraduates held a multi-day hunger strike was in 1983, when a handful fasted for a week to call on the University to divest from apartheid South Africa...
...even some of this year’s strikers, who faced vehement criticism from some fellow students while the fast was going on, were not initially sure whether their efforts had been very effective. While the University eventually met two of the strikers?? demands—holding a meeting with the protesters and releasing a statement reaffirming Harvard’s commitment to treating its workers fairly—they did not agree to negotiate with the security guards’ contractor, AlliedBarton...
After a nine-day-long hunger strike in May, Stand for Security, a student group founded to protest the treatment of Harvard’s subcontracted security guards, secured a meeting with administrators and a reaffirmation of Harvard’s commitment to worker welfare. The hunger strikers?? goals were laudable—it is vital that Harvard treat its workers, including subcontracted workers, with respect and generosity. We wholeheartedly support Stand for Security’s demands, such as the institution of fair grievance procedures, hiring full-time, instead of part-time, workers when possible...
...largely apathetic, resume-driven environment, such earnest passion is refreshing. Undoubtedly, the strikers endured substantial physical and psychological stress, and it would be crass to belittle their suffering. But zealotry is not, in and of itself, admirable, nor does martyrdom make a cause more justified; however passionate, the strikers?? actions reflect a blinkered ideological perspective and a myopic, distorted sense of priorities.The exact cause of the hunger strike is shrouded in the soft haze of progressive chants—“rah, rah, don’t pay workers trash”—and unsubstantiated...
Without discussing the merits of the hunger strikers?? cause, one cannot help but ask: Don’t they have anything better to do? And, given that they launched their progressive crusade during Reading Period, the answer should be a resounding...