Give us our money back

Living on campus usually means you have a meal plan through Sodexo.These handy little deals are used to buy everything from Loft buffet meals to the toilet paper you use afterwards.

When you pay for your meal plan at the beginning of the year, you think, ‘Man do I have a lot of options. Pete’s Arena, Burger King, Sub Connection and the Loft.’

Sadly, the places tend to get very old, very quickly. But what happens to your money if you don’t eat at school every day?

Well it goes back into the  general operating fund for food services.

Living in the dorms means you are required to have a meal plan. This usually requires you to dish out a minimum of $1,625 to Sodexo.

Even though you have the option of switching your buffet meals out, you still have to spend all that money just to dine at the same four places every day or buy groceries from the campus store.

If we are spending OUR money to eat at these places, why can’t we choose to use that money on places other than campus restaurants?

Basically, instead of using our student ID’s, we should just get something similar to gift cards that are good everywhere but still take funds from our munch money.

The other option is giving us credit card like things that could be used anywhere instead of our crappy ID’s. It is our money after all.

I don’t care how much you love Burger King, or how addicted you are to the Buffalo Ranch Chicken wrap at Sub Connection; these places tend to get old  halfway through the year.

The worse thing about it is that we are given the choice of either spending all of the money or watching is disappear down the drain.        

Those people that like to eat out sometimes have to spend even more of their money  instead of the money they spent on the meal plans.

Why can’t we use that money to do what we want with?

If you ever go to get something to eat on campus on the weekend, you’ll be sad to learn that after the long walk to the University Center, everything is closed.    

Sub Connection is open for about four hours and Burger King doesn’t even bother to turn the lights on. So you are stuck with the Loft, which, if you have taken advantage of your super Buffet loft meals, you’ve probably eaten there about 60 or 70 times. Yum.

If we spend our money to buy food, at least keep our options open long enough to even take advantage of it.    

And Sodexo, if we don’t spend all of our money, we should get it back.

Otherwise, at the end of the year, the campus store will be cleared out by
students trying to take advantage of the last bit of money that they’re required to spend.