Can you even imagine refusing to eat over something like this? Why not just hold your breath until you get your own way?
Campus Reform reports:
Swarthmore students go on hunger strike amid frat scandalStudents at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania announced a hunger strike Monday after previously occupying the president’s office and a fraternity.The students demand an apology for Swarthmore’s treatment of protesters during the Thursday and Friday occupation of the president’s office. They demanded the resignation of the campus’ director of public safety and said four students at Swarthmore and two individuals elsewhere will be “refusing food until the college terminates the fraternity leases and issues a commitment to create a reallocation process led by queer and trans students of color, specifically Black and Indigenous students.”Students who occupied the president’s office previously demanded a permanent ban on fraternities and “reallocation” of housing for “marginalized groups,” according to an op-ed in the Swarthmore Voices. Swarthmore’s two fraternities, Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon, previously announced decisions to disband Tuesday, following a sit-in in Phi Psi after the release of documents referencing jokes suggestive of sexual assault and remarks perceived as bigoted, according to NPR.Redacted Phi Psi minutes dating from 2013 refer to women at one point as “sluts” and describe one male slapping a female’s rear end, according to The Swarthmore Phoenix. Minutes released by the Swarthmore Voices reference a “rape tunnel” and “rape attic” in the Delta Upsilon fraternity.After the frats disbanded, student activists subsequently sat in President Valerie Smith’s office from Thursday morning to late afternoon on Friday, with KYW-TV counting 10 protesters in the office and 50 in the hallway.
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