Info About Life at Case

Nitric63
Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:59:52 +0000

The complaint about requiring more meal swipes than most people use per week used to bother me. I even went and talked with someone in charge of food services about it and basically was told that the meal plans are meant to force students to eat together(in overcrowded dining halls with very crappy food) and that the excess of swipes is because they don’t actually expect us to use them all. Essentially, she admitted that part of the reason freshman are required to have 17 meals on their plan per week is to make more money. I was pretty annoyed about this until I compared the cost of the Case meal plan to the one I was on at Clarkson. Although Case has crappier food and fewer meal swipe options, it is at least cheaper by about $500.

Another problem with the meal plan is that there’s no dining hall on the main quad to use meal swipes. They have this place where you can use a swipe to get a sandwich and a drink but that barely counts. They also have a dining hall there but it doesn’t accept meal swipes. So basically, one can use dining points/Case cash at that dining hall and run out very quickly or one can be forced to walk 15minutes back to the residential areas just to get lunch. It’s like they’re intentionally making it inconvenient.