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Editor:
This may sound a bit clich, but I am sick and tired of the Memorial Student Union. I pay close to $2 for a bagel and cream cheese every morning. Another dollar for a yogurt. And the bananas? Even a lowball estimate of them being 50 cents each is worth two pounds of quality Chiquitas at Safeway.
Simply put, it's too much money for the shoddy quality I am getting. I am a vegetarian, and even the "vegetarian selection" (i.e. a plate of lettuce) is poor. I have been gullible enough to get the salad bar more than once, and with it came rotting spinach, spoiled tabouli salad and green peppers that were just plain inedible.
Now, people have been complaining about school food since the inception of SPAM loaf. It's a hackneyed concept, I know, but it's still a valid complaint.
I seriously wonder that the Student Union can be run without someone pocketing insane amounts of money. Let's say one-third of the students (not even including faculty and staff) here spend $5 a day in the Student Union. That's $57,000. Say 50 percent of that goes to cover the cost of food. That's $28,500 a day. I would like to see someone explain how operating costs and wages can come to anywhere near that figure per day.
How is it that an enormous monopolistic entity with access to huge wholesale discounts like the Student Union sells us such inferior grade food, whereas I can buy better quality (fresher, too) food at Safeway for less than half the price? And I'm paying retail there?
To sum it up, if I have to pay through the nose for food at the Student Union, it shouldn't have to taste like it came out of someone else's.
Andrew Holter Barbour
Russian and finance sophomore
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