New meal plans proposed for off-campus students, seniors
Josh Rutenberg
Issue date: 2/6/09 Section: News
"Typically, it's hard for OC students to return to the servery," Muscara said.
Muscara said he hopes that by making the meal plans more convenient, seniors will have a more significant presence in their colleges' day to day lives.
However, the proposal has seen significant obstacles since its inception. McDonald said that adding the new plans is a numbers game: rising gas prices, subsidizing prices for students after Hurricane Ike and the recession have all threatened to hold up the new meal plans. To make matters worse, food prices have increased an average of 7 percent across the nation, and freezes in the northeast have resulted in diminishing food quality, he said.
"In the 22 years I've been in the food business, I've never seen food rise by as much and in as such a short period of time as it has this past year," McDonald said.
Nevertheless, McDonald is hopeful that the plan will be met with success, if not this year then in the near future. By 2010, when the new residential colleges are fully inhabited, McDonald predicts the plans will be able to be implemented. Before then, if the committee accepts the plan, it will also need to be approved by the Dean of Undergraduates.
Muscara said he hopes that by making the meal plans more convenient, seniors will have a more significant presence in their colleges' day to day lives.
However, the proposal has seen significant obstacles since its inception. McDonald said that adding the new plans is a numbers game: rising gas prices, subsidizing prices for students after Hurricane Ike and the recession have all threatened to hold up the new meal plans. To make matters worse, food prices have increased an average of 7 percent across the nation, and freezes in the northeast have resulted in diminishing food quality, he said.
"In the 22 years I've been in the food business, I've never seen food rise by as much and in as such a short period of time as it has this past year," McDonald said.
Nevertheless, McDonald is hopeful that the plan will be met with success, if not this year then in the near future. By 2010, when the new residential colleges are fully inhabited, McDonald predicts the plans will be able to be implemented. Before then, if the committee accepts the plan, it will also need to be approved by the Dean of Undergraduates.
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