Notre Dame students are hungry for equality.About 100 Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame students went on a hunger strike hunger strike, refusal to eat as a protest against existing conditions. Although most often used by prisoners, others have also employed it. For example, Mohandas Gandhi in India and Cesar Chavez in California fasted as religious penance during otherwise political or February 3-5 to urge the South Bend South Bend, city (1990 pop. 105,511), seat of St. Joseph co., N Ind., on the great south bend of the St. Joseph River, in a farming and mint-growing region; inc. as a city 1865. , Ind., university to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians. The strike was the most recent in a series of campus protests dating back to 1995, when the administration at the Catholic school refused to sanction a gay and lesbian campus group. The strike coincided with a meeting of the university's board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. held February 4-5 in London. At the meeting the trustees affirmed a decision made last year by university administrators not to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. in employment, admissions, and services. "Obviously many people are upset right now," Paul Ranogajec, a member of Progressive Student Alliance, a social justice group, said after the vote. Some students skipped a meal each of the three days, while others, such as Ranogajec, lived on just juice. "It wasn't as bad as I thought it might be," he said. "I'm very glad that I did it, showing solidarity with those fighting for the change.... We're just very concerned about this fight for equality and justice." |
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