California State University Students On Hunger Strike, Faculty Vote To Walk Out
At least 17 students at six CSU campuses have gone on a hunger strike. They’re promising to fast until administrators agree to freeze tuition for five years and instead roll back the pay raises for CSU chancellors and presidents. “We’ve gone through many options to make our voices heard by the board of trustees,” Antoine Wilson, a CSU Dominguez Hills business administration student, told the Vallejo Times-Herald. “We’ve held protests, rallies and we’ve gone to board of trustee meetings and they still have ignored us.” In addition, the California Faculty Association, which represents 24,000 CSU employees, announced this week that they voted to authorize a strike.