Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throw-away plastic dishes and utensils in many of the eight dining halls serving continental, or cold breakfasts, represents a wasteful and ecologically unsound practice that should be changed. Certainly, there are savings in energy and time to be gained by not washing breakfast dishes in those Houses. These savings are offset, however, by the cost in energy and resources needed to make the dishes in the first place, and by the fact that the discarded dishes, being non-biodegradable, add to an already serious environmental problem when thrown...
Because fewer dishes and kitchen utensils are used in the dining halls serving cold breakfast, the College would still save money, compared with the old plan, by washing dishes in all dining halls. And since the trays used by students eating cold breakfasts are not disposable, washing all dishes in those eight Houses would not involve much added expense in any case...
...vote comes on the eve of the first day of a two-day breakfast "eat-in" at the four Houses serving hot breakfasts. Student organizers have called the demonstration to register their opposition to the breakfast plan...
Officers of the Mather House Council met with Fox last May to express their dissatisfaction with his breakfast decision. Two weeks later, 165 students from Mather and Dunster Houses, where hot breakfasts are no longer served, formed the "Eggshell Alliance" to protest the breakfast decision. The group marched to Leverett House, one of the Houses serving breakfast under Fox's plan, and purposely crowded the breakfast line there...
...committee did not act on a proposal made at Monday's meeting to invite Fox to breakfast at Winthrop House in an effort to persuade him to reinstitute hot breakfasts...