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Armed with a PowerPoint presentation and baskets of brownies, Mayer discussed Harvard’s mandatory meal plan, upcoming menu changes, and the need for better communication between students and dining services management...
According to Mayer, the meal plan at Harvard is inefficient. “We can save six million bucks if we have four Annenbergs,” he said...
...that are so markedly shortsighted, erratic, and, plainly, full of it. Indeed, there is no better example of this unhappy reality than the current uproar over changes in dining hall menu. During the past month, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) has been decreasing the number and variety of its meal offerings. They blame the change on increasing food prices—which of course, like any budget-based argument at Harvard, seems not to convince many...
...simply lazy or corrupt. On house e-mail lists, some have even gone so far as to attack specific dining-hall employees. All this bickering directed at middlemen ignores the fact of its futility and carries on, instead of discussing solutions to the actual problem, like more flexible meal plans...
...read again and again ridiculous news coming out of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). For years writers for The Crimson have come close to identifying the problem, but never quite got it. HUDS is a monopoly. Almost all students live on campus, and they are forced into an unlimited meal plan. It is a sick, harmful system, that desperately needs reform. I have heard that HUDS is a for profit company, though I’ve never been able to confirm that. They describe themselves as “a self-sustaining department of Harvard University?...