Mirlo http://mirlo.stanford.edu/05-06/ en Copyright 2005 Mon, 05 Sep 2005 22:27:05 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Summer dining is too pricey While Stanford offers many fine summer research and academic opportunities such as Summer Research College (SRC), the lack of suitable dining options available to students who participate in these programs has often caused dissatisfaction and frustration. This past summer, for example, undergraduate students living on campus in Florence Moore Hall and Roble Hall — where many undergraduate summer residents are assigned to live — were required to purchase, at minimum, a seven-meal plan that cost $1,246. This is unreasonable, given these students’ varying dining needs. We believe that Residential & Dining Enterprises can improve students’ summer experiences by introducing at least one substantially less-expensive meal plan option for these undergraduates.

Dining plans can help foster residential education by bringing students together at meal times to discuss current events and their intellectual work, as well as to participate in community building. In addition, plans offer students the convenience and nutrition of prepared meals. However, summer dining costs have been so high in the past — even for the Bay Area — that some students have foregone the convenience of living on campus in order to live off campus to reduce their living costs. Students should not be forced to live off campus due to overly rigid meal plan options.

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