Word: meal
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...four best friends from home, I am the only one currently living in college housing and using a meal plan. One of my friends, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lives in an apartment with three friends and cooks dinner with her boyfriend every night. For her, the experience of living and cooking for herself has not only instilled an admirable sense of independence, but has also allowed her to rest assured that her significant other is a willing (and capable) cook before committing further...
...Massive wasting of food, inequitable distribution of dining costs, and inconvenient dining hours are all evidence of HUDS’ failure to respond to the needs of students. Each of these problems can be remedied if we move away from the all-inclusive meal plan and to a market-based system that allows students to use meal credits to buy only as much HUDS food as they want...
...bring diners’ waste habits into line with resource efficiency is to make sure that we pay in proportion to our use. That means implementing a system in which students swipe their cards as they check out of the servery and a quantity of “meal credits” is deducted from their dining accounts depending on what they choose, much like the use of BoardPlus at the Greenhouse Café. Students should be able to add as much funding to their plans as they want (and perhaps HUDS could set a modest annual minimum...
...Even under the current system, many students choose to eat a majority of their meals away from the dining hall. Dinner might be the only meal that really is a considerable social gathering. And even then, most students choose to sit with blockmates or friends rather than participate in a free-flowing communion of House unity. Thus, allowing students more freedom would hardly destroy the dynamics of House social life...
...Another objection to reform might be that a decline in the volume of meals served would drive up per-meal prices by eliminating HUDS’ economies of scale. But this argument casually assumes that HUDS’ current production level produces economies of scale benefits. Further, it claims that allowing students to make choices would lead to a drop in sales that would significantly cut into those benefits. Even if these premises are correct, HUDS can adjust by consolidating some dining halls to reduce costs or allowing other more competitive vendors to lease dining hall space...