Dining Services Need Only Listen to Students to Make a Profit
To the Editor: In your April 2, 1997 article titled "DDS may enforce $800 minimum," Peter Napolitano is quoted as saying, "the $800 level is the bare minimum.
To the Editor: In your April 2, 1997 article titled "DDS may enforce $800 minimum," Peter Napolitano is quoted as saying, "the $800 level is the bare minimum.
It's a cold snowy night and I am walking back to the Choates. My head is buried into my neck, my fingers feel like icicles, my snot is freezing in my nose and through tear-blurred vision I watch my feet to make sure they are still moving.
Last night's "roundtable discussion" of the proposed mandatory non-refundable $800 meal plan was not a discussion at all.
Does the Student Assembly matter? Does SA matter to you? Well, the answer that I hear all too often is a very quick, "No." The response to those questions that I would offer is that it can.
I have been pleased by the recent accomplishments of Jon Heavey and his partners in the Student Assembly, all of whom have worked hard to regain much of the respect that the organization had lost during my first year at Dartmouth.
Gripes against technology too often take the form of reference to a mythically happy past, with no acknowledgment of those real benefits which technology has brought to society.
Though I was certainly tempted to cram my entire platform into this editorial, I have decided against cramming because, let's face it, platforms are boring. Instead, I want to expand on an idea which I call Project: 2000.
Everyone's said it at one time or another: "I wish I had some time ALONE!" During the week before the start of Spring term I was traveling through Austria solo, in search of this elusive state of contented solitude we all seem to chase and cherish.
The closest I came to a 4.0 was my Blood Alcohol Level." I saw this on a T-shirt the other day, as I was preparing to take a shower in my charming dorm bathroom.
DMS -- n. Dartmouth Male Syndrome. A disorder affecting the self-esteem of males at Dartmouth.
To the Editor: Yes, the new and improved minimum, non-refundable DBA plan is pretty stiff, especially compared to what we have now.
Staying Up Late and Partying
To the Editor: Eight hundred dollars for a meal plan? I would like to be able to honestly say I was surprised to read that Dartmouth Dining Services is considering doubling the minimum DBA.
Last night as I was sitting in Food Court with some friends, one of them asked me why I was a vegetarian.
This spring, tens of thousands of high school juniors and seniors are on the prowl. You've seen the mobs.
Most of you probably saw the Arizona Kentucky game this past Monday. It was one of the best finals the NCAA has seen in many years.
To the Editor: Peter Napolitano was quoted in yesterday's Dartmouth as saying "We haven't heard students talking to us to tell us to close our doors or cut our services." Well, listen up.
To the Editor: This morning I read your comments about the class of 1998 and decided I need to vomit.
To the Editor: Pete Napolitano's plan for a "bare minimum" $800 per term declining balance for each student is absurd and insulting.
To the Editor: As usual, Dartmouth Dining Services is struggling, and instead of considering improving the quality of their food and service, they are going to resort to forcing us to eat in their overpriced dining halls.