Today marks the third day of the hunger strike which 12 members of the Living Wage Campaign announced Saturday on the steps of the Rotunda. Members of the campaign hope the hunger strike will urge University administrators to meet their demands for a $13 minimum wage at the University.
The hunger strike comes 14 years after the group started campaigning, Graduate Arts & Sciences student David Flood said at the Saturday rally.
"[It] became clear [that] reasoned dialogue with our administration was ineffective," Flood said. "The wage campaign decided that in order to pressure administrators to take our demands serious, we would need to pursue an action that would put public pressure on the administration; taking both
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