No more lunch for undergrads at the Law School
Updated 9:57 p.m. In a stunning, heartbreaking and utterly tragic announcement for those who need their daily chicken avocado wrap, Yale Dining Services announced today that undergraduates on University meal plans will no longer be allowed to swipe at the Law School Dining Hall beginning this fall.
In an e-mail message to students, the executive director of dining services, Rafi Taherian, also announced several other changes, including improved buttery menus and the opening of a new "healthy, natural and sustainable convenience store." In addition, Flex...
Wait, so why are HGS and SOM still fair game? Are they part and parcel YUDS in a way that the Law School cafeteria is not?
This huge "F you" to the Flex program and to undergrads broadly is of a piece with Dining Services policy, though. Even when the endowment couldn't have been doing better, they were stunningly candid (in ways that no other student-services department or the University generally ever is) about the reality that profit is their number-one concern, not student satisfaction.
In other words, instead of offering us an overpriced but somewhat flexible meal plan, we're now just left with the overpriced part. I'm in Europe right now, and I'm starting to appreciate how at European universities instead of having dining halls, you buy food at the store like regular people. Better and more varied food for less money
This is crazy. The answer should be provide better offerings in the Dining Halls. Perhaps the quality would be better if there weren't 12 residential college dining halls. Or, maybe we can get a decent food supplier, like Bon Appetit. WESLEYAN'S FOOD IS 10 TIMES AS GOOD. I'm sick of Stiles' dry pasta and disgusting veggie burgers.
They better get some sort of wrap bar together. THIS TIME WE SUE.
our dining system is more socialist than that of European schools? whodathunkit...
f that. just move off campus.
WHERE WILL I GET MY SUSHI?
Who did they send this e-mail to? I didn't get it.
That sucks, though.
THIS IS AWFUL
I WEEPE O LORDE A RUEFUL DAY THIS IS
so glad i'm moving off campus.
others: follow suit.
Yalies love to complain. Just because you're at Yale, doesn't mean the financial crisis doesn't affect you. Go worry about something important.
I'm very disapointed.
Don't worry Yalies! You can still eat at the law school dining hall with ca$h money--like most of the law students do. If you choose not to, your presence will be missed at the law school dining hall. You added diversity and excitement to our daily routine. Except for the time two of you threatened to beat me up when I exercised my prerogative to step ahead of you in line, you were a friendly bunch. In any case, see you at Toad's!
Makes me glad I decided to move off campus. I will not miss the meal plan, the feeling ripped off on a daily basis and the constant looming threat of explosive diarrhea.
This fasciscm against meal options that started in Berkeley College five or six years ago with the birth of the sustainable food project contradicts absolutely everything Yale stands for. The concept of forcing a single option on anyone who wants to be a part of the on-campus residential community at Yale (all on-campus Yale students must have a meal plan) is anti-free expression, anti-diversity, anti-democratic, and anti-Western. Yalies have a right to choose using the resources afforded to them by the university for virtually every other academic and personal decision they make while on campus as undergrads -- so why must all Yalies acceept the sustainable/organic proposition?
Embrace your heritage, Yale -- bring back the choice in dining options! (Or, said differently, ... FIAT LUX!! LET THERE BE LIGHT [from a heat lamp over a batch of fries]!)
Seriously? The Dining Hall Lunches SUCK! Yale College is losing money because all of its undergrads love the wraps. If every college dining hall had a wrap station, Yale Dining Services would keep all of its money. If it implements wrap lines at every residential college dining hall. If it doesn't, we'll sue
Ok, so we can't eat in the Law School any more. No matter. What Yale dining services should really change is their DINNER TIMES. Who has dinner from 5 to 7 pm?? Its just crazy, and forces me to spend at least $10 on burgers or pizza every single night. This has been by far the worst thing about Yale during my first year. Make dinner available from 8 to 11 pm.
Um BK '12, you could always just go to Commons...they've got dinner till 9.
I see I graduated just in time to avoid this travesty. How will the beleaguered undergrad population ever survive this devastating blow?