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Yale also uses the 21-meal system because of the similar set-up of their colleges, Walcott adds. Walcott says that the variable meal option would be cost-efficient at Harvard only if some of the dining halls closed. Such plans have been proposed, Walcott says, but the Corporation makes all decisions about such matters, not the Dining Service...
Operating the 21-meal service run $2036 for an academic year, as compared to $1635 for Brown's 20 meals and $1736 for Penn's 15 meals. "You have to look at how many meals are available for that cost," Walcott says. "You also may or may not be aware that although entitled to 21 meals, the average student eats 14, and the cost is adjusted to that...
Richard S. Eisert '88, president of the Undergraduate Council and former chair of the residential committee thinks that a variable meal plan wouldn't work for Harvard. "Most of the cost is for labor to run all the halls--for a person to miss a meal doesn't save money. Besides, the house dining halls are the center of social life here and another system would jeopardize that," Eisert says...
However, last year the council debated a plan by which students could pick up a coupon at the checker's desk if they were going to miss a meal and then redeem it at one of the house grills or the independently-run Greenhouse Cafe in the Science Center, Eisert says. "But the grills couldn't afford it--they barely break even as it is--and the Greenhouse would only offer $1 of credit," he adds...
...live in Dunster where the food in highly edible," says Kristin A. Gilbertson '87. "But a 21-meal system is a little inefficient and unfair to someone like myself who may not eat as much." She adds, "I can understand their wanting to preserve the house system, but it seems as though some type of point plan could be worked...