Orlando Sentinel: UM campus split as strike escalates
CORAL GABLES — On campus, a handful of University of Miami students join hands with ministers who pray for the administrators watching their every move.
Across the street, under a white tent near Miami’s Metrorail tracks, a UM janitor makes up a dozen cots for the next round of hunger strikers who will quit eating for a day in a show of solidarity with maintenance workers who walked off their jobs March 1.
Now two months old, the strike at UM is roiling the once-tranquil campus near Miami. It’s prompted sit-ins and takeovers, arrests and hunger strikes, marches and countermarches, charges and countercharges, a trip to court and threats of disciplinary action against students who have camped out to defend the janitors’ cause.
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