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Sent this to the university president and director of food services.

I would like to make an informal complaint about some of the connection cafe policies. One, I feel that we students are overcharged by a gross amount for what we get at the cafe. We students pay upwards of $2,500 per year in addition to our already expensive housing (I'm in KC hall). For that kind of price, i expect to be able to get healthy food and courtious workers.

Whenever I go to the Connection Cafe (which, depending on my day and workload, is usually only dinner. on special occasions i may stop in for a 15 minute breakfast or lunch), the only items I can ever get that fit into my diet are assorted fruits/vegetables for breakfast and a salad and wrap for lunch/dinner. The dessert station, hamburgers, pizza, and even the oriental station all typically contain foods which i consider high in fat and/or sugar and cannot eat as a part of my diet. Once, I also witnessed another student asking for a veggie burner, and was told by the chef that veggie burgers were unavaliable.

In addition, i find it highly disrespectful in that meals are specifically alotted based on a time frame. Numerous times I have gone into the cafe for lunch, and been told that I must wait 15 minutes before the workers may serve me. Nowhere that I see is it placed in print in an openly viewable and noticable location that the cafe stops serving between meals. If I show up to the Cafe at 10:45 after I get out of class, i should be able to eat and go on my way by 11:00. I'm paying $2,500 a year to have an all you can eat buffet. I should not have to wait 15 minutes for a meal to officially start before i can so much as get myself a salad or a wrap- again, the only 2 items in the cafe i consider healthy. Additionally, I went to get dinner at 7:35 last night (monday) after writing an essay. However, when I arrived, I was told that serving closed at 7:30. While i had eaten previously that day, i found it highly disrespectful that, again, it is not posted that serving ends at 7:30, when hours are listed as closing at 8 pm.

To a much lesser extend, I am also slightly displeased with the time arrangement for weekends. While the plaza is open during the week as an alternative to the Cafe, I would much prefer to see the plaza and/or market open on saturdays when the cafe is not open, and that an on-campus food source be open later at night.

To summarize:

1. amount paid is inproportionate to when students recieve in food benefits

2. lack of avaliability of healthy food

3. having to wait to be served, when nothing is openly posted on the matter

4. friday/saturday food avaliability

If either/both recipient(s) would prefer to invite me to a personal meeting to discuss these items, I would be welcome to do such.
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I understand there's costs and what not, but shouldn't students come first?
 
Now I don't remember the price since it was over 30 years ago but my freshmen semester Mom decided I need a cafeteria card. They had several varieties depending on how many meals you wanted during the week. Even tho you went thru the line to pick out your meal they had an ice cream freezer with the tubs of ice cream that was self service. Anyway after eating I went to get me a couple scoops of ice cream and I noticed a piece of paper stuck to the wall behind the freezer. I pulled the freezer out and lo and behold it was their sanitation rating and it was a C. Well I looked around and spotted a buddy from the newspaper. I called him over, he took a picture of the rating behind the freezer and they ran a damaging report on the sanitation. The manager was quoted that the report had been taped above the freezer and had come loose and fell. Now it doesn't take a genius to realize there is no way a piece of paper can fall straight down a wall and restick itself. Anyway the manager found out it was me that started this and I got bounced from the cafeteria. As compensation for the remaining meals I had left on my card he refunded the entire purchase price. Man I made out on that. Of course, for the rest of the time I had to eat off campus but since I lived off campus it was that big of a deal.
 
i think they should address this problem by opening a 24 hr. health food cafe'/coffee shop for people on restricted diets.that way no matter what time it may be you could get a quick bite to eat.could also serve as a study area for a change of seenery. just a suggestion.
 
Mag, I hate to be 'that guy' ... but if you're going to send letters of complaint as a university student to the university PTBs ... do yourself a favour and run it through a spell and grammar check before you send it. Not giving a damn about spelling on an online forum is one thing .... but if you're paying for an education, at least pretend that it matters.
 
What? Do you really expect our colleges to be filled with people who know how to spell and use proper grammer? Next you'll be expecting high schools to graduate people who can read their Dick and Jane books...
 
got a reply.

would like to meet with you at your convenience. Let me know when is a good time for us to meet.

Thanks,
Elizabeth
 
barelypure said:
What? Do you really expect our colleges to be filled with people who know how to spell and use proper grammer? Next you'll be expecting high schools to graduate people who can read their Dick and Jane books...
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All you need to do to get in to college now is know how to throw a football or dribble a basketball. This country doesn't give a damn about people who actually make a difference. If you can throw or catch a football, you'll be making $25mil/year and you'll be idolized by everyone no matter what you do.

Become a teacher and you'll make $40,000/year.
 
Spell check can be your BEST FOREVER FRIEND! That is unless you type in the wrong form of the word and it's spelled properly, but it's totally wrong in meaning. :)

My kids ended up getting a limited meal pass and then cooked in their rooms or went out. The oldest had a really nice kitchen unit right across the hall her first year. The other times they'd eat in the snack bars which were open when the regular cafeterias were closed, went into town or ordered pizza, etc.

What really bothers me about college educations is having to pay so much for tuition, room and board and then have to spend $300-500 on books. Of course, they would change the course or the professor had written a book and that's what was required. They could sell them back for a small fraction of what they paid and only if they were very lucky, could they purchase used books. What's even more maddening is having to purchase a "lab book" which half the time would never get used, in addition to the text book. As far as I'm concerned, all learning materials should be included with the tuition. Of course, that's not going to happen any day soon. I would like to know what makes any text book worth $200, new or not.

In this state, tuition is going up at the State colleges/universities. We won't even mention what it costs to go to a private school. I'm glad all three of mine are done, even though they'll be paying off student loans until they're ready to retire.
 
WNY24Fan said:
Spell check can be your BEST FOREVER FRIEND! That is unless you type in the wrong form of the word and it's spelled properly, but it's totally wrong in meaning. :)

My kids ended up getting a limited meal pass and then cooked in their rooms or went out. The oldest had a really nice kitchen unit right across the hall her first year. The other times they'd eat in the snack bars which were open when the regular cafeterias were closed, went into town or ordered pizza, etc.

What really bothers me about college educations is having to pay so much for tuition, room and board and then have to spend $300-500 on books. Of course, they would change the course or the professor had written a book and that's what was required. They could sell them back for a small fraction of what they paid and only if they were very lucky, could they purchase used books. What's even more maddening is having to purchase a "lab book" which half the time would never get used, in addition to the text book. As far as I'm concerned, all learning materials should be included with the tuition. Of course, that's not going to happen any day soon. I would like to know what makes any text book worth $200, new or not.

In this state, tuition is going up at the State colleges/universities. We won't even mention what it costs to go to a private school. I'm glad all three of mine are done, even though they'll be paying off student loans until they're ready to retire.
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my friend at TCU says he's paying ungodly amount for tuition. Didn't give me a number, but said ungodly.
 
As to books that's where a good study group comes in handy. The group I was in we took pretty much the same courses and only bought the number of books we needed so each could take a book to class. We also tried to get the same professors so the material covered was the same. Often times there would be 3 or more sharing a book and notes. Studying together from our combined notes made the courses easier. And sharing books made it cheaper. With us in different classes sometimes one heard something different than the others making insights into the instruction better.
 
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