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| "Let them eat pepper spray" |
According to the Los
Angeles Times (Rivera, 2012), students at six Cal State campuses vow to go
on a hunger strike Wednesday in protest of rising tuition costs. Their demands are quite reasonable. They want
tuition costs frozen for five years and a rollback on excessive administrators’
salaries.
A Cal State
spokesperson, displaying the tone-deaf response so typical of
California university administrators, said the hunger strikers don’t understand the issues. This reminds me of what Marie Antoinette is said to have remarked about the poor people of Paris: “Let them eat
cake.”
We should give these courageous students all our support. And let us hope university police
officers won’t pepper spray them.
References
Rivera, C. (2012, April 29). With tuition hard to swallow, Cal State students to go hungry. Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0429-hunger-strike-20120429,0,6584621.story
References
Rivera, C. (2012, April 29). With tuition hard to swallow, Cal State students to go hungry. Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0429-hunger-strike-20120429,0,6584621.story
