Posted on 04/17/2005 8:22:37 PM PDT by SmithL
Saint Louis -- Students advocating for better pay for Washington University contract workers have ended a six-day hunger strike and will meet with Chancellor Mark Wrighton three times this week to discuss the issue.
The agreement was announced late Saturday after Wrighton met with some of the protesters. However, students said they would continue a sit-in at the undergraduate admissions office until they meet with Wrighton on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
About 15 students have been camped out in the admissions office since April 4. Twelve of the protesters began a hunger strike last Monday. The students said they want the university to negotiate a living wage for the school's lowest-paid workers, such as groundskeepers and food service workers.
Wrighton also said the university would join the Workers Rights Consortium, a nonprofit labor rights group for college workers, and promised to meet with contract companies to discuss health care and contract guidelines.
Students elsewhere have been making similar demands. A hunger strike for workers rights at Georgetown University ended last month.
Students at Yale University, Columbia University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst were expected to stage protests this week for contract extensions, union representation and higher wages for graduate workers.
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Students for Higher Tuition?
Yup they are since mommy and daddy are paying for their education....these kids were probably handed everything on a silver spoon.
What no euphoria?
What? Nobody gave a d@mn if these snot-noses starved to death?
I sure didn't...
"The students said they want the university to negotiate a living wage for the school's lowest-paid workers, such as groundskeepers and food service workers."
These students aren't getting anything for this cause so that gives them credence at least. Hardly ever hear of a hunger strike where the "hungerees" don't benefit in some way directly.
I would have ignored those idiots. I seriously doubt that they could go very long without eating. Anyway, if they did, who cares?
Declare them brain dead.
Don't they know that they quit just as the beautiful euphoria was just about to kick in?!
It isn't called "Washout U for nothing!
Its a good thing that Im not Chancellor at Wash U. I would have had the sit-in fumigated and the offending students removed and arrested on day one. Any further obstructions by the same students would have resulted in instant suspension. In addition, I would instruct their teachers not to give them any special breaks for classes or tests missed.
No, but probably plenty of Ecstasy!
If these kids had some sense, they would be protesting the outrageous salaries some of their professors get paid and then teach them nothing about the course subject.
I am still waiting for that protest.
Walk past them every few minutes with hot, smelly, cheeseburgers and the strike wouldn't last til dinner time.
Well, it wasn't so much a hunger-strike as it was a solid-food strike. They were getting all the nutrition they needed through liquids.
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