Students limited in daily nutrition
Campus Times
March 6, 1998
cartoon by Stephanie Lesniak
University dining has never been something to write home about, but
at least at most universities, students can dine when they please. At the
University of La Verne, students are limited to when and where they can
eat.
At La Verne, there is Davenport Dining Hall and the Spot, both of which
have limited dining times. Davenport serves breakfast from 7-8:30 a.m.,
Monday through Friday and a continental breakfast is offered from 8:30-10:30
a.m. On Sundays, there is only a continental breakfast offered 9-10 a.m.
There is no breakfast on Saturdays. Lunch is served at Davenport, from 11:30
a.m.-1 p.m., Monday through Friday and 12-12:45 p.m. on the weekends. Dinner
is offered from 4:45-6 p.m., Monday through Friday and from 5-5:45 p.m.
on the weekends.
The Spot, ULV's version of a fast food restaurant, has stranger hours
then that of Davenport. Breakfast is simple for meal card users. It runs
from 10:30-11:30 a.m., Monday through Friday and lunch at the Spot runs
from 1-2:30 p.m. Then it gets complicated. Dinner is 2:30-4:45 p.m. and
again 6-9 p.m.
If a student gets hungry a few hours after they eat lunch, they must
either wait until 4:45 p.m. for Davenport or eat in between 2:30-4:45 p.m.
at the Spot. On the weekends, there is no breakfast, lunch or dinner, just
a brunch that is served from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and from 12:45-2 p.m., yet
the grill closes at 1:30 p.m.
This is very frustrating for students. Not only are we forced to buy
a meal card when we live on campus, but we must also work our schedules
around the dining hall's hours?
Students have the stress of going to classes and other things to consider,
why should students be forced to worry about something as simple as dining?
Since dining areas are so limited, why not allow the students to use their
dining cards throughout the day when and where they choose.
If a student wishes to eat breakfast at 1 p.m., then they should be
allotted that request. The hours Davenport and the Spot incorporate are
ridiculous. Students will drive themselves insane trying to figure out what
time to eat and when they should or should not use their meal cards. If
a student eats dinner at the Spot in between the hours of 2:30-4:45 p.m.
and they has a morning class, he or she will not be able to eat at Davenport
until lunch. They will be forced to eat at the Spot, a possible 20 hours
later, which is not something that anyone would want or should have to suffer
through.
Davenport and the Spot are supposed to be student eating facilities,
but seem to be like concentration camp dining halls. If you do not eat at
the scheduled time, you do not eat at all. The hours of dining should not
be so restricted and students should not be required to purchase meal cards.
