Muraca asks alternate meal plan study
By JIM KUHNHENN
Collegian Staff Writer
A study of an alternate
meal plan will be conducted
despite administrative op
position to the plan, according
to student leaders.
Former Undergraduate
Student Government Vice
President Frank Muraca and
USG President George
Cernusca said a study will
show the administration that
the plan will work.
An alternate meal program
would give students a chance
to decide for themselves how
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many meals they want to pay
for and which meals they
want to eat.
This would be a major
change from the present
system, which requires that
residence hall students eat all
meals in the dining halls.
Students living off campus
are allowed to buy meal
tickets for the dining halls.
Many students feel that if this
plan is possible, the reverse
also could work.
The implementation of an
alternate meal plan was part
of Muraca's campaign
platform for USG president.
"I called about this Sunday
Brunch thing They said I
could eat like a horse for
one low price! I wonder
how they knew?"
The plan's basic premise was
that residence hall students
should have a say in the
number of meals they must
pay for.
Otto Mueller, assistant vice
president for housing' and
food service operatioris, said
a certain amount of money
has to be generated to
maintain the entire residence
hall program. Food service,
he said, is the main element
that provides that revenue. If
that money is decreased,
prices go up.
But Muraca said food
services are actually making
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a profit to pay for housing
even though food services are
supposedly totally in
dependent from housing
costs.
Mueller also said the dining
hall food supply is bought by
volume so that the larger the
volume of food purchased, the
cheaper the food. Thus, if an
alternate meal program is
instituted, the amount of food
purchased will go down, in
creasing costs for students.
Muraca said few foods are
sold by volume, but added
that many foods still could be
bought by volume under an
alternate meal plan and then
stored on campus.
Alternate meal programs
now *are in effect at the
University of Pennsylvania
and the University of Pitts
burgh.
But Mueller said Penn State
does not begin to compare to
these other universities.
Penn, for example, is ser
viced by a commercial food
service program, whereas
Periii State runs its own
program.
Mueller also said other
schools institute an attractive
meal program to attract
students. Penn State does not
need to do this because it does
not need more students, he
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University of Pittsburgh's
food services said Pitt
provides students .with four
choices as to the amount of
meals they want to pay for.
Pitt students decide
whether they want to eat 19
meals per week at $550 per
year, 14 meals per week at
$520 per year, 10 meals per
week at $450 per year or five
meals per week at $3lO per
year.
Asked if this meal plan had
increased room and board
costs, she said it had not.
Penn State's office of food
services refused to give a
breakdown of room and board
rates, although Mueller said
food service costs for Penn
State students are similar to
those for Pitt on the 19-meal
per-week level.
Mueller said he did not have
any estimated figures on the
increase in costs if a new
program were instituted. The
figures would vary from term
to term; he said.
He , did mention an ex
perimental program con
ducted in Summer Term of
1968. Students were given the
option of eating five days out
of the week or seven days out
of the week.
Students eating five days
per week saved $2.50 per
week under this program, he
said. But the program was not
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instituted because the amount
saved was not significant to
make the program feasible.
As a result, Muraca and
Cernusca said they believe
the proposed plan should be
investigated further to get a
point of view other than the
administration's.
"All we want to do is have a
study (of an alternate meal
Muraca said. He said
plans are being made to have
a joint study of USG and the
Association of Residence Hall
Students.
Although the alternate
meal plan was not in his
platform, Cernusca said he
would like to implement it.
Cernusca said the most
likely approach would be a
joint study by ARHS and
USG's new Bureau of
Residential Life. He said that
in one or two weeks he would
designate individuals to the
study.
"It (an alternate meal
program) is going to raise per
meal costs, but the gross
amount paid will be less,"
Muraca said.
What needs to be done,
Muraca said, is to educate the
students about why an
alternate meal plan is
needed. "The administration
will say costs will rise," he
said. "We will show it works."
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