This week, a group of Yale University graduate students made an announcement: they're going on a hunger strike in front of the University President's home for better union benefits.

"Yale wants to make us wait and wait and wait … until we give up and go away," the eight members of the graduate student union Local 33 announced. "We have committed ourselves to waiting without eating." And if you have never seen earnest, righteous liberal sincerity up close, please watch this video. (Note the music in the background, the pained faces of the grad students who are ready to do so much for the cause they so believe in.)

Why are they so upset? The Free Beacon has the details:

Yale doctoral students currently earn a stipend $30,000 a year, receive free health care, and have their $40,000 tuition paid in full, according to Yale News.  The university administration said in a statement that they understood the students concerns, but "strongly [urge] that students not put their health at risk or encourage others to do so."

But wait! Turns out, the administration has nothing to worry about, because this is not the type of "hunger strike" that even requires inconvenience. This was posted to Twitter before the user made his handle private: