University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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Food wivict 29 comes close There are state nutrition requirements as well as contract specifications to fulfill. The average weekly meal count at Davies Center is 10,000, so not all patrons can be pleased. A trip to dinner was described by a cross-section of students as everything from My best time of the day to Illegal, involuntary poisoning. Still, there is a conscious effort in the food service offices to offer the meal variety needed to satisfy the diverse crowd. The managers keep charts of attendance daily, with such notes as what picnics, parties, happy hours, or sporting events affected a particular meal. As an indication of SAGA's success this year is that business rose 10 percent over last year, a better indicator, reported one kitchen administrator, is that over 400 off-campus students signed up for meals on the voluntary plan. Training new staff members presented some early obstacles, as did post-Pub clean-up. Silverware and packaged food items were removed to dorm rooms at an alarming and expensive rate. Kitchen facilities were not completely adequate, personnel reported, in such areas as cooler space, electrical capacity, and storage accessibility. As the year went on, however, these problems were either remedied or adjusted. With so much of a student's budget allocated to food needs ($670 for dorm residents), something good should be expected. The popular opinion, a new one on campus, was expressed by one begrudging student, It's not expected to be as good as mom's, but sometimes it comes close. -Kevin Liner fc

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r SAGA: New food service It's not mom's but sometimes it 28 food wrvkf This school year, the university food service contracted with SAGA, a food service firm from Menlo Park, California. SAGA provides for all on-campus food preparation. Coinciding with SAGA's arrival, the new computer identification card system was installed. The two have appeared to bring orderliness that many students and kitchen personnel felt was missing in recent years. The school's third food service in as many years, SAGA succeeds Professional Food Service (PFM) and ARA. Both had problems with small staffs, lack of communication, contractual disputes, and alleged skimpy course offerings. Looking for a more organized outfit, the State Purchasing Committee awarded SAGA the contract over PFM, however. SAGA had to agree to several university requirements such as unlimited seconds and an increase in main course offerings. With the issue of dinner identification cards last fall, the problems the dining rooms had formerly with students doubling on one meal card or going to different dining buildings in the same meal period were eliminated. The easy punching method saves time and, according to facility managers, will save SI 50.000 annually. Another significant change was a university decision allowing the managers all the needed payroll working hours to start the year successfully. This allowed student workers the training necessary from full-time union workers to result in a stable schedule of capable workers. Although the menu is nearly uniform campuswide, the managers of the different dining rooms add their own preferences. Abotr: Unlimited wcood» wit one requirement the university avkrd ut SAGA Taking advantage ol the crrvlcr. venior John Bourlr. Right. Dinner idcntilkation card hvm lime and money lor SAGA: lor Uudenlt. HS jud another card to worry about. Far right top: The Bluguid option h available at the mere punch o4 a card. Far right bottom: SAGAS butinevt rove 10 percent from ARA'c ol lad year; more and more dudenlv are eating on campuv U 111 EC UU1EC | uuiec

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A new life The Hill: There's Each of life's goals seems lo include an uphill climb. For students on upper campus, there is a daily uphill climb that they will likely remember as vividly as any of their college experiences. The hill, as it is known on the UW-Eau Claire campus, is the stretch of Car-field Avenue that extends from Putnam Hall on lower campus, under the Hilltop Center, to Towers and Murray Halls on upper campus. Upon first seeing the hill and realizing that she would have to climb it everyday, freshman Sandy Scully, a Sutherland In search of ... Parking Around and around the blocks you go in search of the impossible-a parking spot. Ideally, one near campus and within walking distance to make it on time to your next class. This merry-go-round search continues while expensive gas is burned, valuable no way around it Hall resident, exclaimed, Oh wow, I don't think I can do it. The hill provides extra fun for upper campus students in the wintertime. Groups of students often enjoy sliding down the hill on various objects, including those pieces of roll-up plastic (you know what we mean). Probably one of the most beneficial services that the hill provides is exercise. Every year freshmen and students new to campus can be heard saying, I'm going to be in great shape after climbing this hill all year. time wasted, and headache number 13 develops. lack of parking is not new; it gets worse every year. Yet UWEC students continue to demonstrate unique ways of handling common parking frustrations and hassles. For instance, faking leg injuries by limping to and from parked cars in the reserved handicapped sections. Or to prevent tickets, handy water bottles have been used to remove little white marks from tires. Ik Me and my mom were here unpacking my stuff and all of a sudden this girl in a robe and slippers plops in and starts talking to me Laura Keefe, freshman from Oak Ridge Hall was startled, but soon got over it as did hundreds of new resident hall occupants. It's the casual camaraderie and easy friendships that constitutes hall life. Patty Villalobos, Lori Lucius, Barb Homann, Keefe, Sue Baker, Lori Miller, and Sue Rather discussed hall living as they watched TV and popped popcorn. All but Baker are freshmen and agreed on most of the advantages and disadvantages of such dose quarters. You make a lot of friends; you make friends with people from your hometown that you didn't know before. I've never been so poor-everything costs money. When you lived at home. Mom and Dad would give you some money to go out; now you have to give yourself the money. I never expected everyone to be so friendly. My girlfriends from home were surprised. Villalobos was blunt. With sisters you tell them off if you get mad at them, but here you've got to be nice because you see them every morning. You have to be so considerate. Getting along with people is not as hard as some imagined. Keefe thinks it's due to the fact that they're all freshmen, and all in the same boat, all the sophomores have their friends already. Keefe said. And you really have to grow up here; there's no one around to say that you can't go out. For all the freedom and friendliness, there are some disadvantages. Such as, I miss a room of my own. I can't turn on the radio or TV whenever I want. It's hard to study with noise outside your door. All you do is eat around this place. I hate it when people aren't quiet in the morning. But most of them are taking advantage of the closeness the dorm life promotes and are anxious to return next year. It's a riot! Lucius said, fc 30 Living