Dining service is something we take for granted. Most of the time, a well-balanced nutritious meal is supplied with a minimal wait. That’s the way it was last year in Towers, but this year some things have changed for the worst.

As a whole, the dining centers at Towers have been scaled down due to a decrease in the amount of students living in them. This would make sense if a building or two were condemned, but in fact the only decrease is in the amount of students to get food. The buffet constantly runs out of food, and most of a student’s time is spent waiting for more to come. A student would not be surprised to wait over 30 minutes in the buffet line for dinner.

And lunch is terrible. What dining service has done is gone from having two lines to one in each building, causing the time a student spends in line to double. Since dining service has been shutting down early, and people are rushing to eat, making the line longer. A five-minute wait has become, at times, a 20-minute wait.

For those of us who are trying to make it to class on time, this is very inconvenient.

I am not passing judgement on food service. Everyday it does a wonderful job, but I feel the change at Towers was poor planning.

To keep the students happy, the least they should do is open more lines during lunch. They should also do away with the buffet line in Wallace-Wilson and go back to the old style of dining service.

In the end these changes would save everybody tremendous amounts of time.

Matt Wilberding

Sophomore

Computer engineering