Starving for attention at UC Berkeley

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/18/10 | Debra J. Saunders

[SmithL]

When some 20 UC Berkeley students announced on May 3 that they were launching a hunger strike to protest the new Arizona immigration law, they also issued a set of "demands." They demanded that Chancellor Robert Birgeneau denounce the Arizona law, rehire laid-off janitors and drop disciplinary actions against students arrested after a violent protest.

You knew how the story would end before it ended. The administration would kowtow to student activists by agreeing to meet with them and behave as if their demands merited serious consideration. Most of the activists' impossible demands would remain unmet.

Then - as happened after 10 days - in order to save face, both sides would agree to act as if they had accomplished something important, and then congratulate themselves for, well, preening.

And once again, the public would see UC Berkeley less as an institution of higher learning and more as a camp for the politically correct.

[cubreporter]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[junta]

To be honest those protesters were Ugly-Americans pathetic attempt to garner some attention in a looks obsessed world.

[screaming eagle2]

let’em starve

[nmh]

“There is some light in this dark tale. The university did not give in to the hunger strikers’ demands on student discipline. “

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/18/EDIP1DFVR9.DTL#ixzz0oIFcZIKv

Should have let him continue his hunger strike.

What an idiot!

[ken21]

berkeley—

a camp for the mentally disabled.

[Seaplaner]

"Hunger strikes" are, of course, quite simple to FAKE.

One wonders if the students missed any meals, or even cut back as much as one calorie.

I still remember back in the early 70s when Cesar Chavez emerged from a hospital after a "hunger strike". He was so fat that he appeared to have GAINED weight during his strike.

[Tennessee Nana]

When some 20 UC Berkeley students announced on May 3 that they were launching a hunger strike to protest the new Arizona immigration law, they also issued a set of “demands.” They demanded that Chancellor Robert Birgeneau
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send an order of bagels and lox from Noah’s Bagels and Lattes from Starbucks by 10 AM every morning to their tree

[Jackson57]

The same thing happened with that idiot Cindy Sheehan’s hunger strike. She refrained from everything but the calorie-laden Java Juices. It all faded very quickly after that.

[bert]

Did they not eat while up in trees?

[CIB-173RDABN]

"...rehire laid-off janitors...

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Here is a novel idea, have the students do janitorial services.

Money is tight. The cost of higher education has gotten out of hand. There was once a time when students worked to pay for tuition.

There must be a lot of jobs that students could do (not for money, but credit towards their tuition.

Have someone who knows how the job needs to be done to supervise but then have student workers do the work.

[dennisw]

Illegal aliens on a vengeance fast——”Don’t stop thinking about a taco” “Yo quiero Taco Bell!”

[Da Coyote]

If they die, it’ll be a good start.

The fewer lib arts losers, the better.

[Persevero]

I know, Cindy’s “fast” cracked me up.

[webheart]

Did they not eat while up in trees?

Bark and leaves.

[chris_bdba]

10 days? That is a diet not a hunger strike!