Fast for peace

Fasters for peace were ordered out of Dunn Meadow following an advisement from the IU Environmental Health Service who said the presence of the tents pitched in the meadow would damage the grass and sanitary facilities in the meadow were not sufficient.

After reaching a compromise with Assistant Dean of Students Herbert Smith, the fasters issued an addendum to their previous statement asking those who could not afford to fast for 24 hours to limit their diet to vitamins, fruit juice and water, lemon, honey and water or brown rice, tea and fruit juice.

Five days later, a feast of rice, chicken bullion and other light foods awaited the fasters.

"My stomach must look like a prune. I'm going to make it look like a balloon," Steve Sorkin, graduate student, said in an IDS article.

Though the fasters planned to stay in the meadow throughout the fast, they only spent two nights in the field after angry townspeople tried to move the fasters out and the protesters decided it was safer not to sleep there.