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continued from page 1' \Q" 10) Drinks are not ’ included with the . _ specials and you can

buy milk cheaper-at _ KeNlart than you can here. Milk costs us more than ' the pop does.

me now ante beverage - - will be included with the specials. " j

‘ 11) We, pay 40¢ a cup

for coffee or tea.

«That's a little high

and you d'on't even get avseoond cup. free.

We've ordered different cups from. the supplier. They are much larger (lOoz) cups which will cost 50¢, so you're getting nore.

]2) Why does toasted bread cost 10¢ extra? ' . It's on the price list and that's the way I inherited it. , 13) Many people are run- ning out of 5¢ cou—

pons. Just go and get your next book. If at

the end of the semester you're still out of nickels, then we'll sell you part of a'book. 13b) Wht h§ve 3 or; 4W”

" ‘

' itself.

(Sounds like our missing: , $100) . The final issue: was ' the reason that most of the students had attended the meeting : the-coupon plan

The! students gen— erally went in feeling that they got "rippedjoff'f “of $120 and that the coupons they were given were not sufficient. to last through to the end of the term.

Jim Griffith stated that he agreed with 90% of the things that the students had already stated. He then went on to explain the rationale that was used in selecting this particular food plan: /

"Whether you accept it or not, that's a decision you'll have to make... for the past three years in par- ticular, the cost'of feeding

~ the number of resident stu—

dents, because it has been dwindling below 200, has been rising. . . the way it used to be, you paid a lump sum, and it was unlimited

Aseconds. 'Ihat eliminate d

about 1300 people on cam— pus using the cafeteria. . .

.the._.on;ly way..tc Open the

books Bf amﬁtaiampgtoﬂthe- entire _

the gd just kﬁca. , are out of I'll check the V ‘ printer and see if he can print up some additional coupon books containing only nickel coupons, in smaller books where you can trade in 30¢ coupons for these bOOkS. 4 . 14) What done if

I lose a book of tickets? it to office" and if} it doesn't Show up between now and the end of the term, we might be able? to work sonething out.

15) If you have books‘or parts Of “leftover ' at the: endiofthe' 'tem, what can be done With them? You can-sell them or if

you cone in, we can sell you turkeys, cans of pop. any reasonable...request

we get you a price on to take home with yop or

to store until next semes— ' ter. '

16) If you buy a book from someone, can't the person then claim that it was stolen? ‘

If you sell or buy a book, Sin‘ply inform the cafe- teria office. 'I'hen ‘ . they will know that it's been Sold. .

If you. paid atten- tion at the beginning of this article, I stated that there were d 17 points “and y _

Yet I've only listed is. ' ‘

.- 0,:

Wty was"’to switch

‘_,/'a"tptally cash operation. . . So‘We had'i‘td" upii°with

a plan that would be accept- able to them (the residents in Marian and Bernadine)

and at the sametime allow anyone to come in and pay gash. Last year we had a script plan where we issued

. phony money. . . The students

who went hone on the week— ends con'plained bitterly

for: a nunber of years that they were tired of paying for meals whenthey weren't ' here to eat them. . . . So we took into consideration that Over a periOd of 10 to 11 years, we found that only 15%

of the students eat break— ’

fast every day and 80% of the students go home every weekend. . . These statistics are compiled from people passing through the cafe— teria. We selected the cou— pon plan basically because we felt it was the Host economical , and it was

the most suitable for the. Il‘OSt people who live in res— idence. Never once did

we assunethat when you add that amount of money could you eat every meal, every week, in the dining hall. What we did assume is that most ‘of you would get along with a book every two weeks. For every body who needs more than that, we offer extra books which would have to

be purchased. ‘ Because what we're saying is that if you eat more, you have to pay The major

problem on most people's

minds is that we don't

have enough for what

we paid for to get us through' to the end of the year.

Abd some of you don't, but

‘I'm still willing to bet

that the people who have

established here for the

last ‘12 or 13 years.. . the idea of Who is going to suffer the most is the stu— dent who stays 7 days a

week. And yes, the student who stays 7 days a week is not going to have sufficient Honey and that will effect

a number of people."

Fine, but still irri— tating a number of students at the meeting was the issue of overhead. Resident stu- ' dents pay overhead in their initial fees, sowhy is over— head charged on cafeteria prices as well? Do we foot the bill for everyone? Of course not, but that's the way it looks. So Mr Griffith went on :

". . .. again we make the assumption that the stu— dents in‘ residence, 70% of” their meals will ” consist of. the specials. . ). .Those people who come in aridnbuyhaf la carte, most Of them are not resident students. And that was the rationale behind the prices, so that the people who pay cash also share in that overhead. Obviously we can't reduce everything we sell. . . If I come in and buy the special, a resident. student can cone in and buy the sane thing cheaper. You are not paying the overhead‘”fOr" everybody. You're paying a percentage of it. Primar- ily'we have a cafeteria,c3n campus becauSe we have res- r ident students. Therefore,

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e Food ,

a greater percentage of that overhead is going to be borne . by the-people who move in. We' ve tried to center in on the weekends and try to put the greatest dollar savings on the weekend Heals." Finally, the point was raised that the students were never really informed of this new plan, We might ‘ not have been so upset if we had known about it before hand and had the tine to allot for the extra expense. In the catalog it says "room and boar "- Not "room and

board 5 days a week", or "you're expected to go home on the weekends." Supposedly a letter was mailed out with the catalogs explaining the new program. Many of those letters were never received. Sone still haven't come. "I do feel we make a mistake in trying to explain the program and I'm not going to try and hide that fact" said Jim Griffith. "The one thing I'm not going to fool you on is that we are not going to give each and every student in resi— dence an extra hundred dol— , ,lars, ,or more coupons unless you pay for them. " Griffith; stated at the ,,rreeting that if you Pay

*“tthe—‘ihus'iness’off 3.6615100 ~ 00 ,

they will give you 2 more bookeOf tickets. 'I'hat's a $25.00 savings (each book isworth $62.50), but you still have to pay for them."

‘ ' After the meeting was over, I imder'Stood. I under- mat‘smee I am not an Islander, and I am gOing to be here every day for the, next. 77 months, I am not going to have enough money. So before I ran to wire home for funds and care packages, I went to see Mr. Griffith.

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