From: Monica S Ullagaddi (msu@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 13:13:14 EDT
I know the meal plan freshmen are required to subscribe to has changed a
whole lot since my freshman year ... still...
I recently had the opportunity to witness someone "burning meal blocks" (I
think this was what it was called back in the day) by buying loads of
junk food from upstairs in the uc (I have also forgotten what this is
called). Or maybe they were just buying a lot of food... I don't really
know.
In any case, the person decided that they wouldn't be able to eat
everything that they had purchased, and they threw it all out. Two bags
full of food in the trash.
I'm not going to lecture on somalia, india, or china, but... there are
people right on craig street, oakland, south side, the strip wherever...
that could have benefitted from what was thrown out. would it have killed
you (you know who you are) to have taken a little hike (less than a half
mile) down the street to give it to someone who could have really used it?
In retrospect this has nothing to do with the meal plan, but just the
enormous waste that occurs at cmu. yea yea, you pay 30 grand to come here
and waste however the hell you want, but that's a disgusting attitude to
take.
There is a lot of good that organizations at cmu do in terms of community
service... I'm not knocking that at all, on the contrary, they are the
redeeming factor. On an individual level... however, much is to be
desired.
of whom much is given, much is expected.
Monica S. Ullagaddi
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