Ok Gators...
We all got accepted to Allegheny, so it would seem that we are all at least that smart... right?
So WHY are so many people excited about the changes being made to Brooks and McKinley's? One ASG member put it really well today. "I don't understand why people are excited. They should have been doing at LEAST this much all along."
People on campus are literally buying into Sodexho's scheme, which seems to be "if we give them really really crappy service for four years, it will seem amazing when we just do the minimum of what we should have all along."
I don't know if we are all aware, but Sodexho has been resistant to many student suggestions such as buying local, and providing food from the community. Allegedly they argue that it is too expensive to provide locally grown food. However, Grove City College (just down 79) has lots of locally grown food at their cafeterias, their students LOVE the food and, guess what... they pay SIGNIFICANTLY less than we do for meal plans.
People... there is more hope out there. My Arch Nemesis Ronnie Sims may be getting the boot, as there are at leasts two other companies vying to buy out the contract and treat the Gators the way they should have been treated all along.
ASG is meeting with Sodexho today, and the other two companies later this week, and sometimes later this semester the competition will have the option to wow us with their selections and service.
I am serious. The next person i hear praise Sodexho's new food at Brooks is getting a side of beef to the head... it is still over-cooked to the point of being rock-like, so it WILL hurt.
3 comments:
Dear Alleghator,
I happen to enjoy a nice sedexo meal from time to time. There's nothing quite like a catered lunch with chocolate chip cookies to get a meeting started on the right foot. I'd also like to suggest that perhaps the staunchly conservative students at Allegheny (I hear there are 10 this year!) are slowing the process of getting fresh foods from local businesses. I propose this superficial football analogy: Why don't the conservatives do what they do best and block these new liberal ideas to give Mr. Simko some time and space to maneuver some new ideas into the menus.
Politics + Food = game, set, match....point.
I would like to apologize for misspelling the name of your blog. My comment should read, "Dear AlleghEtor." I've never been good at English.
I have no information about "conservative" students inhibiting the progression of locally grown foods being included in the menus here. I will certainly check with my many sources to investigate this possibility. I am not sure how that would benefit these students, however.
Also, why would the conservatives need to block the liberals for Mr. Simko, if it is the conservatives who are slowing the process... wouldn't it be more productive for them them to block... i dunno... themselves?
If you would like to respond with a cogent argument or some facts... feel free.
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