Southern's mission is to "serve the student body." Last year, when WSMC's status on campus was under jeopardy, everyone loved to talk about how WSMC was not truly an asset to the student body. They saw the fact that WSMC was primarily a training place for a limited number of students as being the only benefit to the student body, and therefore was not a priority. I find it interesting now that the Strategic Planning Committee is suggesting the use of CK's building to house a fledging culinary arts program--something that would truly have a minimal effect on the student body.
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Zach Brown
12 years ago
You can't shutdown a campus tradition and icon just because ten people want to be in a culinary school. It makes no sense at all.
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Christopher Moles
12 years ago
I may not be a student at SAU anymore but I did love going to the CK all the time. It would be an utter shame to see it go just to make room for something that only a handful of students are a part of. A huge majority of the students eat there and you are employing a good 30 students to work there.
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Kendall Pendergrass
12 years ago
Taking away the CK simply to provide space for an upstart program that we don't even know will succeed is irresponsible and unprofessional! The CK makes money, provides jobs, and offers a social setting and alternative food options. If Southern is really serious about culinary arts, they will give it the resources it needs. As I see it in a year or two they will either out grow the CK, become dissatisfied, or no longer be a program and we will have closed the CK for nothing! Southern should be exploring business opportunities and growing the successful ones instead of stifling good business.
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Tim Gosser
12 years ago
History is on the line, I enjoy eating at the CK, people work there, if you take away something from students that just makes them more made at you, isn't it Southern's to meet students needs, especially if it's in the food department, c'mon man, keep the CK open!!!! Please, Southern's campus won't be the same without that breakfast from CK's either!!!!!!!!
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Joel Westberg
12 years ago
I understand the need to expand our programs and make SAU more marketable as a university. But we needn't close our history to make room for our future. If thousands of my tuition dollars are being spent on a ginormous Student Center that we don't really need, why not simply add a room there for culinary arts? CK is my favorite place on campus to eat. It's so affordable, unlike the cafeteria, and the food is more casual and tasty. To those on the committee, please don't take away this icon of SAU. If you need a place to put culinary arts, use the new Student Center that you feel we need.
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Keri Mau
12 years ago
Southern's Campus Kitchen not only provides nourishment to the student body but provides a place for social interaction during a busy school day. CK is an integral part of Southern and I still crave a Master burger or gravy and biscuits from there years later!
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Maureen Wisener
12 years ago
I'm not sure I understand why the CK needs to be closed in order to offer a culinary arts program. It seems as if that could be accommodated elsewhere. However, I am sure that the CK has value. At least it did when I attended Southern. As a Freshman, I enjoyed going to the CK for many reasons but Saturday nights after the programs in the gym were lots of fun. They closed the CK on Saturday nights though because they thought it was not making money. So students started going to Chattanooga on Saturday nights instead. Changes are not always for the better. It would be very sad to see no CK on my next visit to Southern. I hope the college administration will find alternatives for their culinary arts program instead.
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Che-lei
12 years ago
Lots of community workers also utilize the CK facilities: CA students, construction workers and visitiors.
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Teresa Adams Rice
12 years ago
Change is an inevitable part of life but it takes wisdom to know what should change and what should be left as it is. It would not be wise to take one if the few places at Southern that provide a nostalgic connection to alumni across generations and decades of students and continue to serve current students well. I grew up eating at the CK when my father was taking classes in the summers at SMC. When I attended I made many memories there with my then boyfriend and husband of 28 years. Alumni feel connected to our school by knowing we can always stop at CK's when visiting for a Lomino, Masterburger, or sam's Chicken.
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Taresa vanderoef
12 years ago
The ck is a big part of what I remember from being a student at southern. From what I understand it doing fine financially and there is no good reason to close it.
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Cyndy
12 years ago
I always eat there when visiting Southern!! Great food and many memories from 1985!!
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Daniel Foster
12 years ago
CK's was there for me when I needed a meal and everywhere else was closed. It was a fun and safe place for my friends and I to enjoy meals at all hours of the day,
Southern's mission is to "serve the student body." Last year, when WSMC's status on campus was under jeopardy, everyone loved to talk about how WSMC was not truly an asset to the student body. They saw the fact that WSMC was primarily a training place for a limited number of students as being the only benefit to the student body, and therefore was not a priority. I find it interesting now that the Strategic Planning Committee is suggesting the use of CK's building to house a fledging culinary arts program--something that would truly have a minimal effect on the student body.
You can't shutdown a campus tradition and icon just because ten people want to be in a culinary school. It makes no sense at all.
I may not be a student at SAU anymore but I did love going to the CK all the time. It would be an utter shame to see it go just to make room for something that only a handful of students are a part of. A huge majority of the students eat there and you are employing a good 30 students to work there.
Taking away the CK simply to provide space for an upstart program that we don't even know will succeed is irresponsible and unprofessional! The CK makes money, provides jobs, and offers a social setting and alternative food options. If Southern is really serious about culinary arts, they will give it the resources it needs. As I see it in a year or two they will either out grow the CK, become dissatisfied, or no longer be a program and we will have closed the CK for nothing! Southern should be exploring business opportunities and growing the successful ones instead of stifling good business.
History is on the line, I enjoy eating at the CK, people work there, if you take away something from students that just makes them more made at you, isn't it Southern's to meet students needs, especially if it's in the food department, c'mon man, keep the CK open!!!! Please, Southern's campus won't be the same without that breakfast from CK's either!!!!!!!!
I understand the need to expand our programs and make SAU more marketable as a university. But we needn't close our history to make room for our future. If thousands of my tuition dollars are being spent on a ginormous Student Center that we don't really need, why not simply add a room there for culinary arts? CK is my favorite place on campus to eat. It's so affordable, unlike the cafeteria, and the food is more casual and tasty. To those on the committee, please don't take away this icon of SAU. If you need a place to put culinary arts, use the new Student Center that you feel we need.
Southern's Campus Kitchen not only provides nourishment to the student body but provides a place for social interaction during a busy school day. CK is an integral part of Southern and I still crave a Master burger or gravy and biscuits from there years later!
I'm not sure I understand why the CK needs to be closed in order to offer a culinary arts program. It seems as if that could be accommodated elsewhere. However, I am sure that the CK has value. At least it did when I attended Southern. As a Freshman, I enjoyed going to the CK for many reasons but Saturday nights after the programs in the gym were lots of fun. They closed the CK on Saturday nights though because they thought it was not making money. So students started going to Chattanooga on Saturday nights instead. Changes are not always for the better. It would be very sad to see no CK on my next visit to Southern. I hope the college administration will find alternatives for their culinary arts program instead.
Lots of community workers also utilize the CK facilities: CA students, construction workers and visitiors.
Change is an inevitable part of life but it takes wisdom to know what should change and what should be left as it is. It would not be wise to take one if the few places at Southern that provide a nostalgic connection to alumni across generations and decades of students and continue to serve current students well. I grew up eating at the CK when my father was taking classes in the summers at SMC. When I attended I made many memories there with my then boyfriend and husband of 28 years. Alumni feel connected to our school by knowing we can always stop at CK's when visiting for a Lomino, Masterburger, or sam's Chicken.
The ck is a big part of what I remember from being a student at southern. From what I understand it doing fine financially and there is no good reason to close it.
I always eat there when visiting Southern!! Great food and many memories from 1985!!
CK's was there for me when I needed a meal and everywhere else was closed. It was a fun and safe place for my friends and I to enjoy meals at all hours of the day,