In their 8th day of hunger strikes and with two of their members in the hospital for malnutrition and others in a state of delerium writing terrible prose for their blog, Harvard Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) under the name Stand4Security.org earned the humanitarian assistance of a nationwide team of Essembly members.

Flipside, your humble author, has appealed to the kinder side of social networking and relayed the struggles of this stalwart team of wealthy interstate suburbanites who have chosen the path of asceticism so that the Harvard campus security guards can get a raise.  The stories of Sarah Ruberman's recruitment by facial micturation, and J. Claire Provost's fruitless efforts to acquire the endorsement of the late Senator Paul Wellstone have not fallen upon deaf ears, and so...

Peter D. of Malden MA did resolve at 12:06 AM that "FLIPSIDE should order pizzas for the SLAM demonstrators in Harvard Yard."

In support were:

Madelyn Marsh
Alexander Hankins
Emily Swanson
Steve Watmore
Ben Huizenga
Mike Lima
Andrea Watson
Robert Moore
Volker L.

In retrospect, this is an international effort, because Volker L. is from Germany.  In due course, Flipside did read the will of his fellow Essembly members as soon as he logged on, and did promptly drive to Harvard Square to Pinocchio's Pizza and order five of the nicest slices of Sicilian pepperoni pizza made in Cambridge.  The Sicilian flourish was in honor of Andrea Watson, a Hurricane Katrina survivor, who deserves special recognition for her consideration of those less fortunate persons in the Ivy Leagues.

The pizza, which was meated, per consensus of Essemblers was delivered to the bewildered Hunger Strikers at 2:17 PM Thursday, May 10th.  One hunger striker recoiled suspiciously at the pizza box, not sure what would leap out of it.  Another person said "we don't want it," but then thought better of it and said "what, the heck, I'm not one of the more avid hunger strikers anyway."  When he took the pizza, he was dismayed that it had meat, and said "no one here eats meat, could you please get a vegetarian pizza?"  Ultimately, the pizza was accepted by a video cameraman documenting the event.