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...wherever you sit at the national smorgasbord, whether you dine off Styrofoam or Limoges, there's the same relentless struggle against the encroachments of billowing flesh. Affluent people have better weapons, of ) course -- StairMasters and NordicTracks -- but even they are sometimes forced to fly first class just to find seats that will accommodate their thighs...
Hence the glorious relief of those recent holiday meals. The food is unreformed, archaic, predictable -- mashed potatoes and gravy, overcooked veggies, huge slabs of pie. It's democratic, if not downright egalitarian -- meaning pretty much the same collection of foodstuffs whether you dine in a mansion or a soup kitchen. We can give thanks, with a chorus of satisfied belches, that the food is for once meant just to be filling, and that the only entertainment we're likely to find at the table is the people who are seated around...
Traffic was light at the Union, however, as many first-years opted to dine at local restaurants or the house dining halls. "We've all been sick with colds so there is no way we will risk our stomachs as well," said Jocelyn M. Walker '98, who ate dinner at Chili's with five of her friends...
...went to Quincy with two friends and you can only have one guest," said a sophomore Currier resident who then had to dine at the Union, an experience she described curtly: "yuck...
...Members have the option to dine formally or dine casually," he says...