Hunger Strike, 1968 November

Contains material on a hunger strike of 5-6 days duration in November 1968. The tag “Hunger for Peace” or something similar was worn by all strikers, who numbered in total 125-150, but not all at one time. The list of names included is a particular accounting of who was a striker. Someone gave the people at the Health Clinic a complete list of hunger strikers and a notation was made in each person’s health file. President Carr’s letter refers to a march led by hunger strikers and their supporters to Carr’s house. The Art Buchwald column refers to an Oberlin sophomore, Nancy Pittman, who offered to call her stepfather, Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post, to give our objective publicity. We did not know at the time how little she understood about the objective; hence the satire by Buchwald.