More evidence accumulates that higher education has drifted off into its own universe, utterly detached from common sense and the society and polity upon which it depends for survival. Alex Griswold reports in the Free Beacon: A group of Yale University graduate students announced Tuesday evening that they would be undertaking a hunger strike to pressure the administration into granting them better union benefits. The strike is taking place in front of University President Peter Salovey’s home. "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." Going hungry for an extended time is indeed a show of dedication and solidarity.  But: According to a pamphlet posted on Twitter by a  former Yale student, the hunger strike is "symbolic" and...(Read Full Post)