DrafterX
Friday, April 28, 2017 9:35:32 AM
A group of Yale University graduate students announced Tuesday evening that they would be undertaking a hunger strike to pressure the administration into granting them better union benefits. The strike is taking place in front of University President Peter Salovey’s home.

"Yale wants to make us wait and wait and wait … until we give up and go away," the eight members of the graduate student union Local 33 announced. "We have committed ourselves to waiting without eating."

Yale doctoral students currently earn a stipend $30,000 a year, receive free health care, and have their $40,000 tuition paid in full, according to Yale News. The university administration said in a statement that they understood the students concerns, but "strongly [urge] that students not put their health at risk or encourage others to do so."

As it turns out, the hunger strike might not put anyone's health in peril. According to a pamphlet posted on Twitter by a former Yale student, the hunger strike is "symbolic" and protesters can leave and get food when they can no longer go on.

http://freebeacon.com/culture/yale-grad-students-go-symbolic-hunger-strike-theyre-allowed-eat/ 

Film at 11.... 🤦

tailgater
Friday, April 28, 2017 9:52:04 AM
Yay unions!

SmokeMonkey
Friday, April 28, 2017 10:01:36 AM
I'm on a hunger strike to make me less fat. Should I also ask for better benefits?
DrafterX
Friday, April 28, 2017 10:15:15 AM
Monkeys with benefits..?? 😕
NapalmMan67
Friday, April 28, 2017 11:55:49 AM
I'm on a hunger strike until lunch time.

MACS
Friday, April 28, 2017 12:48:03 PM
So, basically they're being paid $70,000 a year, and receive free health care... to be students... and they're b*tching because they want more?

F*** you.

SmokeMonkey
Friday, April 28, 2017 1:33:23 PM

Monkeys with benefits..?? 😕

DrafterX wrote:

Not good ones. I feel as if I should hold out for free fur care.

DrafterX
Friday, April 28, 2017 2:02:35 PM

So, basically they're being paid $70,000 a year, and receive free health care... to be students... and they're b*tching because they want more?

F*** you.

MACS wrote:

i'm just the messenger... 😞

MACS
Friday, April 28, 2017 3:02:49 PM

i'm just the messenger... 😞

DrafterX wrote:

Not you, buddy... the ungrateful a-holes who are 'protesting'.

DrafterX
Friday, April 28, 2017 4:19:56 PM
🤣
Hank_The_Tank
Friday, April 28, 2017 4:34:11 PM

So, basically they're being paid $70,000 a year, and receive free health care... to be students... and they're b*tching because they want more?

F*** you.

MACS wrote:

My thoughts exactly. Guarantee these are the same people that got participation trophies and feel entitled to the world.

Krazeehorse
Friday, April 28, 2017 5:24:44 PM
They is Ivy League edjumacated.
DrafterX
Friday, April 28, 2017 10:26:55 PM
They is f'k in da head.... 😟
SteveS
Friday, April 28, 2017 10:47:53 PM

So, basically they're being paid $70,000 a year, and receive free health care... to be students... and they're b*tching because they want more?

F*** you.

MACS wrote:

And the horse they rode in on ...

frankj1
Friday, April 28, 2017 10:52:26 PM
I heard they have good pizza in New Haven
MACS
Friday, April 28, 2017 11:02:02 PM

I heard they have good pizza in New Haven

frankj1 wrote:

Got nothing on Providence.

usafvet509
Saturday, April 29, 2017 1:33:11 AM
F*** em to death with a frozen pineapple wrapped in diarrhea-soaked concertina wire, inserted fronds first, of course
tailgater
Saturday, April 29, 2017 10:11:24 AM

Got nothing on Providence.

MACS wrote:

Might be the single most wrongest thing ever posted here.

tailgater
Saturday, April 29, 2017 10:12:50 AM

I heard they have good pizza in New Haven

frankj1 wrote:

Is your last name Pepe?

MACS
Saturday, April 29, 2017 10:28:35 AM

Might be the single most wrongest thing ever posted here.

tailgater wrote:

You give me too much credit.