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Funny thing about communism, somebody always ends up hungry.

Joanna King hyphen Slutsky, for indeed that is her real name.

A Marxist graduate student at Columbia acts as spokesman for the starving students inside the voluntary occupation of the Ivy League

campus.

What are the university obligated to provide food to people who have taken over a building?

Well, first of all, we're saying that they're obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here.

But you mentioned that there was a request that food and water be brought in.

To allow it to be brought in, I mean, well I guess it's ultimately a question of what kind of

community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students. Do you want students to die of

dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you?

If the answer is no, then you should allow basic, I mean it's crazy to say because we're on an

Ivy League campus but this is like basic humanitarian aid we're asking for, like could people please

have a glass of water?

But they did put themselves in that very deliberately in that situation and in that position.

So it seems like you're sort of saying, we want to be revolutionary, so we want to take up this building,

now would you please bring us food

and water nobody's asking them to bring anything everything we're we're asking

them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid basic humanitarian aid

basic humanitarian aid for those keeping score

means access to the ready-to-eat dining hall buffet.

Yesterday morning, the cops went in and took them all away. So I guess they've got basic humanitarian

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