A Student's Perspective on the Daily Show Episode Featuring Binghamton University and Rastafarian Religion

The other day I was watching the Daily Show and to my surprise, it actually featured my own school, Binghamton University. I had heard reports that a segment had been filmed on my campus with one of the students and now I was finally seeing the episode appear on You Tube, which is a great site. Simply Go to the website You Tube and type in the key words, "Daily Show Binghamton" and you will find a hilarious episode featuring my own university.
The Daily show decides to film a segment over the controversy featuring one student named Aaron Akabari going on a hunger strike because of his religious views on Rastafarian dietary measures. However, the dining halls on campus were not met according to his dietary needs and he decided to go on a hunger strike.

His hunger strike was so controversial because some people claimed that all he wanted was attention and recognition with his name in the newspaper. As a student on campus I thought that he was crazy going on a hunger strike. In fact the Daily Show episode even states how ridiculous it was for him to go on a hunger strike and even compared him to Ghandi's hunger strike. Some students thought that he was going on a hunger strike to protest the school's policy of making each student pay a fee for the campus dining halls. Every student that lives on campus in a dorm room must have a required meal plan to pay for food from the dining halls. Some students say that was the real cause of his hunger strike. The episode even makes fun of that with the correspondent from the Daily Show, Dan Dakeri who does a great job in the segment.

The segment starts off with religious persecution and then cuts to the student Aaron from Binghamton and compares it to his religious persecution which as the show states in the end, really could be a hoax by this clever student as many of the student at Binghamton University felt. Even it is was a hoax from my opinion, he is one clever kid because he got himself his own segment on the Daily Show which is pretty cool, even if it is making fun of himself which he knew he was doing at the time.