Dining messes show immaturity, not protest
It’s not that hard to figure out this is a college campus, but the Student Center, it looks like a day care.
Ever since Franklin College made the decision to go trayless, the tables outside Sodexo have been covered in food and plates. And it’s disgusting.
It seems to be an act of rebellion. Most students complain about having to carry the plates all the way over to the dish carousel.
Is this really that much of an inconvenience? After all, we have to carry the plates out, and they typically have food piled on them. It seems there would be less to carry while putting plates up.
The common idea seems to be that by not carrying up our plates, we’re sticking it to The Man, and Sodexo will realize they need to bring trays back.
But that simply is not the case.
In the Sept. 11 issue of The Franklin, the editorial board discussed the benefits of the trayless initiative is. We stand by that argument.
But this is another issue.
The burden for clean tables is on the shoulders of students. You think this is sending a message to the workers in Sodexo that you want your trays back.
It’s not. This sends a message to potential students that we live like pigs.
This sends a message to alumni that we don’t care what tables in our dining facilities look like.
This sends a message to parents that all the money they are spending on school can’t get the dinner table cleaned off.
We’re all adults; how about we start acting like it? We don’t leave our plates on the table while we’re at home, so why should we do it at school?
This situation has become a major inconvenience because of lazy students. Sodexo workers now have more to clean up at the end of the day because there are more plates and more trash laying on the tables.
And it’s an inconvenience to the other students who have to eat with all the excess garbage around their meal.
This is not a means of protest. Want to protest? Go on a hunger strike. This way, there will be less trash and plates stacked up on the tables.
And if you still want to eat, then put forth the extra effort and pick up after yourself.
