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...unrest shows no sign of abating. Last week 180 Free University students staged a 45-hour hunger strike and talkin at a West Berlin Protestant Student Center to demand the release of a jailed anti-Shah demonstrator. Whether they achieved their goal seemed almost beside the point; the act of protest itself was the crucial issue...
Most surprising is Galbraith's disenchantment with industrial growth, which, after all, is not an end but a means. Only by growth can the world's economies produce the chemicals and machines to alleviate hunger, the materials to provide adequate housing for all, and the means by which people can earn more to spend on leisure, culture, travel, medicine-and books by economists...
After several days of meetings, the girls decided that a hunger strike was their most efficient means of protest, since--unlike a sit-in--it would not interfere with the College's business. On midnight Wednesday, May 10, they stopped eating...
...girls on the hunger strike openly accused her of duplicity in her past relations with them. They point to a long series of incidents in which she has acted in a high-handed manner or made promises she could not keep. In a "short history" they published after the strike, the strikers noted that Mrs. Bunting has sought out student advice only about the decor of the new dormitories, but never solicited student reaction to her grand design for the House system...
There is no question that the hunger strike was long in coming. In the spring of 1966, when Mrs. Bunting announced that the three meals per day contract would apply to every college resident, girls in off-campus houses far from the dining halls appealed to her to give them a breakfast subsidy and she agreed. But, the following fall, Mrs. Bunting seemed to have reversed her decision. As the strikers have said, "this announcement took the proportions of a small scandal in the eyes of the girls who had moved off-campus to save money and avoid ... eating breakfast...