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Hunger Strikers Demand Changes at Columbia

Submitted by laura, Nov 8, 2007 10:16

if someone wants to starve its their choice. why should that affect the schools programs? why should the administration care? these are adults over 18. columbia is not a daycare center. or a preschool. if the students die its their freedom. now THATS america!!!!!

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They are students in an American private university. They are not forced to be there and their parents are paying... [MORE]	legalatina	Nov 14, 2007 18:12
I find the ongoing brouhaha of the multicultural student "starving" protestors amusing. Poor babies. Perhaps they should take a sabbatical... [MORE]	cypticguise	Nov 13, 2007 11:29
So Victoria Ruiz wants her parents to stay in the dark about her participating in a hunger strike. Hope daddy... [MORE]	Jack Peterson	Nov 9, 2007 13:55
Hi, Firstly, I never spoke to you yesterday about the strike. Secondly, my mother was well informed and yesterday wrote and... [MORE]	Victoria Ruiz	Nov 8, 2007 15:50
if someone wants to starve its their choice. why should that affect the schools programs? why should the administration care?...	laura	Nov 8, 2007 10:16
Let me see if I get this correctly. Five students from Columbia/Barnard, out of an enrolment of thousands, decide to... [MORE]	W. H. Injeian	Nov 8, 2007 08:58
Well then there will 5 spots at Columbia for those in our population who have sense! [MORE]	Mike Don	Nov 8, 2007 08:51

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