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Yale Students Hold Hunger Strike That Involves Them Eating. Because They’re Stupid.

Hank Berrien

On Tuesday, members of a Yale graduate student union, showing their grit and mettle, began a hunger strike outside of the university president’s home to force the university to start collective bargaining.

That profile in courage was marred by one tiny detail: if a student got hungry, he or she was permitted to leave to get something to eat. Check out the underlined sentence in the group’s pamphlet:

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