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Letters: Meal plans, med school and a funny sportswriter


Meal plan needs options

Instead of having one plan, have several plans. Have a one-meal, two-meals and all-you-can-eat plan. This would still put students together, allow cost savings and provide the greatest amount of diversity for all students. Surely students could not complain if they ate one balanced meal a day at the [Memorial Union].

They could get a lot to eat in that one meal while getting less costly food for the other meals. Also, most students don’t make it to breakfast, so why should they have to pay for it?

—Wanda Bundy,

Friend of ASU Student

Drexel gets a laugh

As a journalism graduate of ASU, I had a good laugh about Mr. Drexel’s Devil Dish. A couple of things — first, the scholarship is prestigious — no one will say it wasn’t, but praising yourself for it in a newspaper column?

This trend of writing about yourself seems to be common, as during the summer you wrote a story about how you missed a flight. The real point — who cares? Secondly, if you claim to be the world’s greatest journalist, why exactly did you have an AP style error in your column — note: shouldn’t the line read “more than 400 stories” rather than “over 400 stories?” “Over” implies physically going “over” something … like “I drove ‘over’ a speed bump.” The words “more than” imply having a quantity of something. Just some things to think about.

—Mike Flaherty,

ASU Alumni

Mandatory meal plan unfair

I am a proud alum and now my son is an incoming freshman. I lived in a dorm my freshman year and ate most of my meals under a meal plan. My son is also staying in a dorm this year. I don’t think that there should be a mandatory meal plan for all the dorms. For instance, my son is in Cholla and his living quarters contain a kitchen area, so he is able to prepare meals there. $13/day is a lot to spend on food especially if not all the meals are the kind of food a person will eat. My son does not share his father’s palate for fine foods and could survive quite adequately, he thinks, on burgers and pizza. College is intended to be a learning experience, and I’m hoping that given the opportunity to prepare some of his own meals, maybe he’ll expand his food choices. Meal plans should be varied and voluntary. There should be a daily option, a weekend option, a dinner-only option, etc. Having a mandatory plan is just another way of getting money out of our pockets up front with no guarantee on what we will receive.

—Karl Neufville,

ASU Alumni

Future med school bringing opportunity

I applaud the collaborative venture between the two universities in the formation of med school here in Phoenix. I remain involved in academics and presumably always will. I am highly intrigued at the potential for study in the medical sciences, genetics, technology and research. I am currently a grad student, have a career going and have the usual domestic responsibilities for a married, 30-ish man. Perhaps with the creation of this unique collaborative effort, there may evolve the possibility for part-time study. I would most certainly be one of the first applicants for a part-time program, and surely there are other working adults who feel as I do.

—Daniel Knight,

ASU Graduate Student


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