Members of the University of Florida’s Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) recently began a hunger strike demanding a meeting with university president Bernie Machen to discuss socially responsible investment plans for the university’s $1.2 billion endowment. The students have been working for a year, asking the administration to create a student-faculty committee to review and advise the Board of Trustees on investments.  The University of Florida’s Endowment is currently managed through an Investment Corporation, a non-profit organization exempt from open record requirements.  So far the administration has not reacted to the strike, which began last week.

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