Denied Tenure, a Professor Starts a Hunger Strike

When denied tenure, most faculty members take their final year to find a new job or career path, pack up their offices, and quietly leave campus. A few fight back — with a complaint, for example, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or a lawsuit alleging discrimination or failure to follow proper procedure.  Juan J. Rojo, an assistant professor of Spanish at Lafayette College, has taken a more extreme step: He is starting a hunger strike to protest the college’s denying him tenure.