Seventeen students. Eight days without food. No result.
A weeklong hunger strike didn’t bring a group of Brown University students closer to pushing their school to selling its investments in companies that profit from the Israel-Hamas war. Though students rallied on campus, staged sit-ins in the student center and refused to eat on behalf of their cause, the Brown Corporation did not act on their demands in meetings last week.
The student activists want the school to stop putting its endowment into numerous companies that produce weapons and other supplies that aid the war, such as Boeing. Protesters have argued these companies are “enabling and profiting from the genocide in Gaza.”
But the Ivy League’s administration is holding firm in its investments, highlighting ongoing wartime tensions on U.S. college campuses .
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