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L The Battalion
IFESTYLES
vServe some up
Dining on campus provides culinary alternative
By Stephen Wells
Stajf writer
S ome Aggies hold the
stereotype that fresh
men do not know
anything. They do not
know how to study, what
classes they can skip or the
notion that the weekends
begin on Thursdays.
But like freshmen, all Ag
gies must decide where to
eat no matter how long they
have been here.
The first choice Aggies
have for eating is the “dining
on campus is fun” option.
Many Aggies have gone this
route and found the meal
plan worth their while.
Todd Macek, a fresh
man history major, has his
own ideas about the good
and the bad of dining on
campus.
“The best thing about
eating on campus is the buf
fet style,” Macek said. “You
just keep going back.
“I would say the worst
thing is that you’ve got to go
walk to the dining hall. You
can’t just sit in your room
and watch the game.”
Jill Jeffries, a freshman
English major, and her
roommate Missy Burch
field, a freshman animal
science major, are ambiva
lent about eating at the din
ing halls.
“You have a lot of choic
es,” Jeffries said. “But you
don’t necessarily want to
eat them all. The turkey is
good, though.”
Her roommate is more
neutral in her assessment.
“Considering they’re
preparing food for the mass
es, it’s not that bad,” Burch
field said.
The urban myths about
campus food have been cir
culating for years.
“No, no scare stories (to
share),” Jeffries said. “We
haven’t had anything that
tastes really bad, but they
should do something
about that rubbery chick
en stuff.”
“We go for the food that’s
not cooked,” Burchfield
said. “It’s salad and baked
potatoes for us eveiy day.”
Sometimes, students
will walk out of the dining
halls with a chicken sand
wich or two stuffed into a
pocket for later, but some
of this year’s freshman class
are a little more honest
than their predecessors.
“I don’t steal,” Macek
said. “I’ve got enough food
in the dorm room — snack
stuff. I do walk out drink
ing a soda sometimes. Is
that stealing?”
Other than the dining
halls, students generally
have two other options.
They can order food out or
suck it up and attempt to
cook at home.
“Eating out for me —
you get to pick what you
eat,” Macek said. “There’s
more variety.
“It’s more expensive than
a meal plan and cuts into
the cigarette fund. But at
least you can be lazy and eat
pizza rolls in your room.”
Jeffries said she and her
roommate have not ordered
out yet.
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Ramsey Parr, a sophomore kinesiology major, dines at Sts
“We go to Northgate,”
she said.
“We also go to Under
ground every Friday,”
Burchfield said.
Mel Bartlett, a junior
agricultural economics ma
jor, said eating out is the
most efficient way to eat for
a student on the go.
“When you go to school
full time and live off campus
and have to work a full
week, you don’t have the
time to cook,” Bartlett said.
“I usually just eat at work
since I’m there until late at
night anyway.”
On-campus and off-
campus students alsolu
different motivations i
cooking their own food.
“We just made are
meal on Sunday,” Burchfie
said. “We cooked pastan
chicken and bought oaei
those premixed salads."
Todd Macek has a mm
defeatist attitude.
“All I have in my refrf•
ator is Kool-Aid andij
cubes," Macek said. “Ineiei
go shopping. When I ill
cook in my dorm roonu
ramen noodles.”
So, when their tumit
are rumbling, Aggies caul
ways to satisfy their hunger
Dorms act as nursing homes for the } oim
Chris
Martin
columnist
I distinctly
remember
the ersatz
aroma of the
nursing
home, an
eclectic cor
nucopia of
floor wax, uri
nal soaps and
aging flesh
that pasted it
self thick
about my
nose and throat.
Visiting the nursing home may
be a gallant service to the sagging,
but closer inspection reveals an ora
cle to die able.
Frequent visits to the nursing
home have taught me that every
cold-fish handshake and oatmeal-
encrusted lip quiver is like a voice
from the wilderness, shouting, “For
the love of God, my boy, don’t ever
grow old!”
Childhood memories fade into
a scene from the present day. The
setting is College Campus, USA,
where the rusting colors of sum
mer signal the return of new life to
the dormitories.
When I lived in grand old Aston
Hall (motto: 91 percent crab free!)
my freshman year, I tasted the spry
zing of freedom and youth for the
first couple of days. But as the days
rolled by, a familiar old flavor crept
into my mouth.
It was the pungent bouquet of
institutional living. I was no longer
an unfettered visitor, singing Christ
mas carols and passing out wa
tered-down Kool-Aid. I was an in
mate, locked away in a colossal
concrete cage.
I had seen the truth, but it
didn’t set me free. Living on cam
pus is nothing more than a clev
erly disguised nursing home de
signed for the peace of mind of
parents everywhere.
Think about it for a minute. The
physical similarities are obvious.
You go from the comfort and
luxury of home life, where the water
is always hot and the towels are al
ways snuggly soft, to being carted
off by supposed loved ones to exile
in a sterile, concrete block box.
The room is shared by two
roommates. One is usually smarmy
and dangerously attractive, like my
self, and the other typically possess
es a virtual Chex mix of psychotic
personalities.
Limited mobility is one of the
trademar ks of on-campus and
nursing home life. There’s always a
big locked door at the entrance that
keeps the bad people out of the
dorms and the good people in the
nursing home.
Nursing home travel is usually
limited to the strength of two bony
arms propelling a wheelchair. This
gives residents the freedom to slow
ly creep down to the dining hall, un
til they either fall asleep, forget they
are hungry or miss the last call for
creamed corn.
Dormitory travel is usually limit
ed to the strength of two bony legs
propelling a body forward from
parking one’s car in Fish Lot.
Another odd similarity between
living in the dorm and the nursing
home is the abundance of unneces
sarily exposed flesh.
It seems people in the nursin'
home honestly could careless
about their naked bodies. I gues
being bathed, dipped anddippai
twice a day by overweight order
lies just sucks the dignity rightoc:
of you.
Years of my life have been
stripped away by accidental
glances through those standard;
sue muumuus.
And by no surprise, guys ini
dorm also share this affectionfor
partial group nudity, stemming
from the belief that passing fen^
will instinctively hurl themselves-
their itty-bitty thigh pimples.
Years of my life have been
stripped away by accidental glante
at a my roommate giving methe
old “one-eyed stare” through tins'
standard issue boxers.
Now you know the truth. Yes',
ginia, living on campus is a diabo:
cal exercise in social engineering
But perhaps there is a silverlinii|
to that gray cloud. Perhaps an ex
change system could be establish
between Sourhside and our sister
campus at the Fallen Arches Relit
ment Castle. Pills, blackouts and
drooling — they won’t be wastedta
the young anymore.
Chris Martin is asm 1
journalism nm
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