lol. Awhile ago a guy went on a hunger strike to demand that "Sutter Street" be renamed, becaues John Sutter was allegedly mean to indians. The situation was complicated however, because Sutter Davis Hospital is located on that street and did not want to change its name, and happened to like being on a street of the same name. Anyway, so the city didn't budge. On the second or third day our newpaper headline was "hunger striker seen eating!" He then came to the ASUCD Senate meeting to plead his case, explaining "if I didn't eat, I would have died!" Yeah, thats the point genius.

Seriously though, there have been some bold hunger strikes in history to protest worthy things like severe civil rights problems, etc, but doing so to protest nuclear research or say street names is extremely melodramatic to say the least. There might be some argument if they were preventing nuclear weapons from being invented, but the fact is they already do exist and ongoing research probably just makes them safer - it certainly does not effect whether or not they will kill people -- thus, its a really marginal thing to be staking one's life on via hunger strikes...
 

yea, the point is that you only do it if you are actually willing to die for your cause.

Who really believes that a bunch of bored middle-class white kids are gonna die over this?