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.... 🤦

Yay unions!

I'm on a hunger strike to make me less fat. Should I also ask for better benefits?

Monkeys with benefits..?? 😕

I'm on a hunger strike until lunch time.

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.

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

i'm just the messenger... 😞

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

🤣

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

They is Ivy League edjumacated.

They is f'k in da head.... 😟

And the horse they rode in on ...

I heard they have good pizza in New Haven

Got nothing on Providence.

F*** em to death with a frozen pineapple wrapped in diarrhea-soaked concertina wire, inserted fronds first, of course

Might be the single most wrongest thing ever posted here.

Is your last name Pepe?

You give me too much credit.