By: Hailey Colwell
University of Minnesota students and alumni joined 8 other Minnesota colleges and more than 75 schools nationwide Friday in a day of fasting to raise awareness about climate change in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
The typhoon, which hit landfall in the Philippines on Nov. 8 and is known as Yolanda there, spurred an international protest headed by Philippines delegate Naderev Sano, who announced Nov. 11 during United Nations climate talks in Warsaw that he would fast until a “meaningful outcome is in sight.”