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The current dining services at Westminster will be leaving us and the school is looking at who to hire for the upcoming years. Before our current system, Westminster had a contract with Sodexo: a company that mainly provides for prisons. Don't let the school go back to the cheap option. We need a service that truly provides for our needs, some of which include:
- We need our dining services to be friendly for people with celiac’s disease. These students simply cannot eat in Shaw because of the present dangers of cross-contamination.
- We need options for plant-based students. Often the response to veggie options is “well, you have a salad bar” — but it’s simply not enough. These students need protein, carbs, and all the other nutrients carnivores eat. A salad bar won’t cut it, and if dining offered more consistent options these students would be more likely to spend their money on campus, rather than resorting to outside sources.
- We need our dining services to have sustainable eating as a priority. We can save the planet by the way we eat, and we want our campus dining to mirror our passion for the environment. As this is a learning institution, why not take advantage of dining being an opportunity to learn?
- We need healthy food. Fresh, organic produce not drenched in oil. More fruit options, and all day long. If students can learn to eat healthy at a young age, it can save them from a life of main much later on.
If we are going to pay for this food, we deserve to have a voice. Sign this petition to help us tell Curtis Ryan, CFO of Westminster College, that dining MUST be a priority.
Please share this petition with all of your classmates, friends and family and feel free to suggest other ideas.
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June 10, 2017
The emails I receive from students struggling to find safe meals are exhausting to read but they keep me focused on why we started this. I am spending my evenings gathering documentation to prove that we deserve better than the bottom-tier options administration is currently considering. This fight is draining but the prospect of being stuck with inadequate dining for another year is far worse.
June 10, 2017
Seeing the momentum gain speed is heavy because it shows how many of us are struggling with the same basic issues. I have been drained by the silence from the administration but knowing you are all behind this keeps me pushing forward.
9 Comments
I have stricter dietary needs do to health and religious reasons, and more often than not I was unable to eat at Shaw because the food had been crosscontaminated with pork and such. I am not vegan or vegetarian, so it was really frustrating to try to eat breakfast or anything and be told well we have a salad bar and fruit.
Healthy options are a necessity, more fruit options as well as whole grain breads and cereals would definitely help.
Please have quality dining options for our students.
Yes!!!! Thank you so much Maggie
Give us the veg options! Eating healthy and sustainable is the cool thing to do
I have complex dining needs. The majority of my diet consists of fresh produce. I had a meal plan this past year as a freshman and the provided dining services did not meet my needs. I was planning on exempting myself from having a meal plan for the rest of my time at the college, but then I found out about the coming shift in food providers. Here we have an opportunity as a community of impassioned learners to create a model for healthy and sustainable eating at an affordable cost. There are high quality small providers and local providers that can assist the Westminster dining experience. There are shifts that can be made in how food is sourced and bought, how meals are cooked, and how produce is sold. The campus gardens can be expanded and harvested. There are many avenues of possibility; I and many other students demand to be involved directly. You are what you eat; providing low quality, unethical, unsustainable, and unpalatable food to a student body is an insult to the principles of higher learning.
Yaaaas. I'll see to it students are involved in the hiring process.
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Final supporters
The current dining services at Westminster will be leaving us and the school is looking at who to hire for the upcoming years. Before our current system, Westminster had a contract with Sodexo: a company that mainly provides for prisons. Don't let the school go back to the cheap option. We need a service that truly provides for our needs, some of which include:
- We need our dining services to be friendly for people with celiac’s disease. These students simply cannot eat in Shaw because of the present dangers of cross-contamination.
- We need options for plant-based students. Often the response to veggie options is “well, you have a salad bar” — but it’s simply not enough. These students need protein, carbs, and all the other nutrients carnivores eat. A salad bar won’t cut it, and if dining offered more consistent options these students would be more likely to spend their money on campus, rather than resorting to outside sources.
- We need our dining services to have sustainable eating as a priority. We can save the planet by the way we eat, and we want our campus dining to mirror our passion for the environment. As this is a learning institution, why not take advantage of dining being an opportunity to learn?
- We need healthy food. Fresh, organic produce not drenched in oil. More fruit options, and all day long. If students can learn to eat healthy at a young age, it can save them from a life of main much later on.
If we are going to pay for this food, we deserve to have a voice. Sign this petition to help us tell Curtis Ryan, CFO of Westminster College, that dining MUST be a priority.
Please share this petition with all of your classmates, friends and family and feel free to suggest other ideas.
Updates
June 10, 2017
The emails I receive from students struggling to find safe meals are exhausting to read but they keep me focused on why we started this. I am spending my evenings gathering documentation to prove that we deserve better than the bottom-tier options administration is currently considering. This fight is draining but the prospect of being stuck with inadequate dining for another year is far worse.
June 10, 2017
Seeing the momentum gain speed is heavy because it shows how many of us are struggling with the same basic issues. I have been drained by the silence from the administration but knowing you are all behind this keeps me pushing forward.
9 Comments
The food options here are honestly pathetic. Paying full price for a meal plan and only being able to eat lettuce is ridiculous
I have stricter dietary needs do to health and religious reasons, and more often than not I was unable to eat at Shaw because the food had been crosscontaminated with pork and such. I am not vegan or vegetarian, so it was really frustrating to try to eat breakfast or anything and be told well we have a salad bar and fruit.
Healthy options are a necessity, more fruit options as well as whole grain breads and cereals would definitely help.
Please have quality dining options for our students.
Yes!!!! Thank you so much Maggie
Give us the veg options! Eating healthy and sustainable is the cool thing to do
I have complex dining needs. The majority of my diet consists of fresh produce. I had a meal plan this past year as a freshman and the provided dining services did not meet my needs. I was planning on exempting myself from having a meal plan for the rest of my time at the college, but then I found out about the coming shift in food providers. Here we have an opportunity as a community of impassioned learners to create a model for healthy and sustainable eating at an affordable cost. There are high quality small providers and local providers that can assist the Westminster dining experience. There are shifts that can be made in how food is sourced and bought, how meals are cooked, and how produce is sold. The campus gardens can be expanded and harvested. There are many avenues of possibility; I and many other students demand to be involved directly. You are what you eat; providing low quality, unethical, unsustainable, and unpalatable food to a student body is an insult to the principles of higher learning.
Yaaaas. I'll see to it students are involved in the hiring process.
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The food options here are honestly pathetic. Paying full price for a meal plan and only being able to eat lettuce is ridiculous