| OCR Text |
Show WEDNESDAY, Is DIXIE SUN Red Rock Cafe making you pay? Fewer Students claim lunchroom tearing into their DSC's is wallets Dixie Sun Web many students feel it s still not good enough Its a rip off, said Austin Miller, a freshman DSC student Martin Petersen, director of food services, does not believe the Red Rock CafE has inflated prices by Eric Watson Editor Red Rock Cafe isn t a fancy restaurant &it s a school cafeteria At the start of the school year, The many students must have r expected after quality purchasing their first Red Rock Cafe meal, and I think they were a bit disappointed five-sta- i OPINION NOVEMBER 5, 2003 as I said, it s a school cafeteria, not some swanky restaurant It wasn t the quality of the food that led students to believe the RRC might be so extravagant, nor was it the new name or the new dining area, although the lunchroom has improved immensely since last fall It was merely sticker shock The price of the students first meals at the RRC must have implanted mto these students an expectation of excellence, but these expectations died away before dinner time But think the cafeteria is really said Aaron overpriced, Peeples, a DSC sophomore Sometimes they have good days, and other times they don t If they had good days everyday then maybe they would be justified in charging what they I do The Red Rock Cafe has come a long way since last year, but RAPE continued from FRONT unidentified Hispanic male had abducted her while hiding in the back of her car She claimed that he then forced her to drive to the Shivwits Indian Reservation by Gunlock Reservoir where she reported the incident to have taken place Just recently Leduc finally admitted that the previous filed report of rape had been a he and that the seven other incidents she had filed, between the months of August and October, were false clauns as w'ell Our prices are comparable throughout the community, We don t Petersen said receive any state funding We re mandated to make money dont think the prices at RRC are compara- A lot of students ble The prices are unreasonable, said Zach Weigert, DSC freshman As a football player and as a training athlete, you can t just eat to get by, you need to eat to gam This pricing system makes it tough According to Petersen, dorm students get a discount of 12 percent every time they use But this their meal card attempt to alleviate the hefty prices at the RRC has not done much, m students eyes Ive spent my entire $800 meal plan and added $500 and there s still two months left, said Sterling Bunell, a sophoI was more DSC student at week each $100 spending the start of the semester I had to cut down Petersen argues that most students eat three meals a day, but these meal plans are designed to feed students times a day 2 Most college students skip breakfast and then eat lunch and skip dinner, Petersen said. Or there are students that eat a late breakfast skip different The several accounts, told by Leduc, led to more interviews by the police department, said Craig Harding, spokesman for the St George police department Early on, not enough information was released or known, to the describe accurately alleged rape Leduc, 21, is now booked m the Purgatory Correctional Facility on $4,446 bail for providing eight different accounts of false information to St George officers She was arrested last Wednesday Leduc described the Hispanic male as the perpetrator in all instances Harding eight lunch and eat dinner If you re eating three meals a day, youre money probably won t last With this fact, some students are forced to eat light meals until the semester s end. on what you buy and how much you buy, said DSC freshman, Adrian Shahbazian I get salads for lunch a lot of the times and if you go with a cheaper lunch I think the meal card will last a I bought a $700 lot longer meal plan and I still have about $300 left It just depends While it is understood that the cafeteria needs to make money and that the prices are comparable to community restaurants, most students maintain that it s a rip off According to Petersen, 75 percent of the Red Rock Cafes earnings come from dorm stuThe Red Rock Cafe dents coudnt make money without the dorm students, and the dorm students couldnt eat without the Red Rock Cafe But by having the majority of their customers pay a large lump sum up front, the Red Rock Cafe has no reason to lower prices or make better food The majority of the Red Rock Cafe's customers come back day after day because they're forced to do so Students simply feel the cafeteria should feel an obligation to conduct a reasonable busi- ness The cafeteria can get away restauwith charging five-sta- r rant prices while serving mediocre food, because that 75 percent isn't gomg described this suspect as tious ficti- last Leducs alleged Wednesday, boyfriend, Douglas Cleon Beyer, 21, was at her residence carrying a concealed weapon After confiscating the gun the man attempted to reach for another gun out of the kitchen drawer The police then had to remove the gun from Beyer He was then arrested on a $835 bail for disorderly conduct and for carrying a concealed weapon The rumors floating around the DSC campus can now be laid to rest When arrested -- 5 students can afford skyrocketing costs of college L. by Adolph Higher education ought to be a right, available to every student who makes the grade, without regard to that student's ability to pay But its increasingly a privilege for the rich and an impossible burden for the poor There is a spiraling crisis of affordability in higher education today As almost every state reels from the effects of tax cuts, legislatures slash funding for higher education Colleges respond with hefty tuition mcreases, reduced financial assistance and new fees According to the College Board, over the last decade, average tuition and fees at public four year colleges increased 40 percent and tuition private increased 33 percent Community colleges, the gateway to advanced studfor also ies many, increased charges Tuition and fees rose in all but two states, with 10 states mandating increases of more than 10 percent, according to the National Center on Public Policy and Higher Education Some community college officials m four-yea- r California estimate mitments to provide education for state residents, as they shift the balance of admissions more toward applicants w'ho pay substantially higher tuition State schools have traditionally been the ladders to good jobs lor students from workfamiing and middle-claslies But hat ladder is no longer standing In fact, the Congressional Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance reports that by the end of this decade, as many as 4 4 million college qualified high school graduates will be unable to enroll in a college, and 2 million will not go to college at all because they can t afford it low-co- st Reed Jr. Ridder Newspapers Knight an enrollment decline of about 200,000 students due to tuition fee increases These measures put an extra burden on the average family, whose net worth has declined over the last two years for the first time m half a century Budget cuts and tuition mcreases ripple throughout the academic community They result m more hiring freezes and early retirements among full time faculty Replacing them are poorly paid and overworked instructors contingent Meanwhile, students have fewer courses to choose from, and their classes are overcrowded are universities Many com from their retreating s I four-yea- r Financial aid is not picking up the slack Three decades ago, Pell Grants helped guarantee access to public colleges for primarily low- - and students Americans earned college degrees as a result In 1975, the maximum Pell grant covered 84 perr cent of costs at a public college Now, the grant covers only 42 percent r of costs at public colleges and only 16 percent of costs at four year private moderate-incom- Millions e of four-yea- four-yea- colleges a result of an increasing reliance on loans, the majority of students (64 percent) graduate with an average debt of almost $17,000 This is up significantly from $8,200 As m 1989 Skyrocketing tuition and reliance on interest-carryinloans force some students to forgo college altogether, while others drop out or delay graduation because they sacrifice the time for their studies in order to work Fifty three percent of freshmen who work more than 35 hours per week drop out and do not receive a degree Contrast this with low' income freshmen who work one to 14 hours per week Only 20 percent of them do not receive a degree g low-incom- e |
