Posted on 04/28/2018 10:14:47 AM PDT by bgill
UT Austin will officially open the doors to its first food pantry and career closet. Current UT students will be able to get one bag of free food per month. If they need professional clothing for internship or job interviews, they can also get clothes from the career closet. "In some ways, [it's] supplemental income, so they're able to pay rent, buy those textbooks," said Student Emergency Service coordinator Will Ross. "So students have access to food and not spend at the grocery store."...The program allowed those with qualified parking citations to pay them off through donations of 40-oz. plastic jars of peanut butter.
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Guess they've never heard of Ramen. I worked part time and budgeted my money. No one gave me any "supplemental money." How stupid was I.
What? No cry room?
Bet they’ll complain that the food isn’t Halal.
Why don’t they just lower the tuition?
Peanut butter? The horror!
Some students budget and live simply and still aren’t getting enough to eat. My sister was in that position. And yes, she did have a job. Not all college students are binge drinking party animals.
Have things changed, fundamentally, and I’m missing something?
For example, when I went away to college, I lived in a dorm, and was fed through a meal plan. It was paid for by mom and dad, who had saved for us kids to go to college. But other kids who had student loans, also paid for meal plans.
The point I’m getting at, is that I had a place to go to be fed. Is that not happening anymore; do these college kids really have to buy their own groceries? Do they not live in the dorms and have meal plans nowadays? What’s really going on here?
When feeling flush, one of my boys used to say, "Now I can afford the cup Ramen."
This news is worse than the news about our perennially sorry football team.
I hate to say this, but I might have gone to A&M if this state of affairs had existed “back in the day.”
Hook ‘em (I suppose that is still OK to say.)
Better still, just open the campus dining facility to everybody, free-of-charge.
Why aren’t snowflake students protesting high college tuition? Idiots!
OK! Now college students will be able to afford booze.
The real story here is that students - as a whole - are being "groomed" to believe and to feel like they're "losers" who can't even feed themselves.
Just imagine the (at first unnoticed) loss of self-esteem that goes with accepting hand-outs!
Further, just imagine the (hidden, inward) psychological reaction of those other students - many of whom are also living "hand to mouth" - when they see their classmates living "high on the hog" on hand-outs.
Regards,
Free food that isn’t foraged in the wild isn’t free. Someone, somewhere paid for it.
Getting a part-time job would also be a viable solution.
Near a university? Good luck with that.
I thought the big thing was Mac and Cheese
I paid my own room and board. And I didn’t have money for a meal plan. But I scrimped by like most students. I guess that’s a little too much effort for today’s snowflakes.
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