Dear Campus Auxiliary Services,

I hope everything is going well for you. My name is Andy Yang, and I am currently a freshman in SUNY New Paltz. It has been a monumental experience to live in such a beautiful place and begin a new adventure in my life. As all these beautiful things are happening, I do realize an imperfection among the campus experience in which it has an enormous impact on the students’ lives: namely, the lack of variety at the Peregrine Dining Hall and the current food plan choices for the first-year students.

The Peregrine Dining Hall is the only place where students can eat all they want without worrying about being charged additionally since the dining hall is in buffet style. Unlike the restaurants in the Student Union building, which are also covered by meal plan but are more expensive, going to the dining hall is better financially. However, as a student in SUNY New Paltz, I was shocked by the monotony of the meal in the dining hall. It was always the classic American Style food in which the more diverse meal type is all locating in the Student Union buildings. After perceiving this, I soon change my meal plan to Plan C (Freedom) which gives me more dining dollars to be used in food in the Student Unions. However, comparing to the dining hall, the quantity of the food in Student Unions is dissatisfying and I will be spending an average of $40 everyday even after skipping breakfast. This leaves me with two choices between quantity and satisfactory.

While this conundrum exists and stilling impacting various students like me, there is solutions to them. For instance, the problem with eating in the Student Union is their pricey and inadequacy meals. Therefore, if there were a meal plan that let students eat a specific amount in the Student Unions every week and charges additional dining dollars for exceeding that limit, then the problem with price and quantity is solved. In addition, there can also be an adjustment in the Peregrine Dining hall in which the remaining number of times unused in the dining hall can be converted into dining dollars. This gives more alternatives for the students, and they will not be restricted by only two choices. Lastly, there could be an additional meal plan that is relatively costly than the other plans but allows the students to have more meal options.

Sincerely,

 

 

 

Andy Yang