There are several dining halls, restaurants, and cafes swarming campus, with each .
guided to serve a particular standardized diet for students. However, the majority of most .
nutritional and cost efficient facilities close at unreasonable hours. For example, the .
dining commons claims to close at 7:30pm. But when students (like myself) arrive to .
Waring commons around seven after work, many times, we aren't admitted because the .
majority of dinner options (The Grille, for instance) have been closed down. The .
alternatives to not eating are overpriced "hang-outs" like the Big Onion (which kill meal-.
points) or worse, ordering from the most reasonable "voted best wings in town" take-out. .
The problem arises when these small "quick fixes" are visited on a daily basis, resulting .
in quick pounds, declining health, and empty pockets. However, the HUB restaurants .
(though more expensive than the dining commons) offer more variety, nutritional value, .
and quantity than the usual "late-night" eateries in the commons area.
As a second semester freshman, I have noticed that I (and many others) am .
slowly escalating towards the famous "Freshman 15". Of course I was warned about late-.
night splurges and usually resisted the temptation of "Wing Zone's jumbo nuclear .
wings". However, as I stepped on the scale over spring break, seven extra pounds .
somehow snuck their way in. "Where did this come from?" I thought while trying to re-.
evaluate my eating habits. It took about a week to realize that in many occasions, I was .
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actually forced to consume all of the wrong foods. .
I propose that the university, re-open the lunch only restaurants in the HUB from .
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7 until 10pm, Sunday through Thursday.
Under the current system, students are regulated to eating at hours to which the .
University finds appropriate, but not at the time they choose. As mentioned earlier, many .
students work or are still in class during the school's dinner hours of operation.
