HarbaughToMichigan

February 25th, 2015 at 12:03 PM ^

So let the market reign and let the cafeterias close.  Allow students to forego paying the "Board" which is extremely overpriced.  My most expensive year in for Room and Food was my freshman year... living on North Campus... in a 10x7 room with a roommate, a bathroom shared with 28 guys, a 15 minute bus ride to civilization, and the extremely overpriced meals (what is it now? it was about $7.50 per breakfast, $9 per lunch and like $11.50 for dinner when it was priced out).  Explain that to me.  Are Universities the only entities in the country that don't make good use of economies of scale?  For Christ's sake, management of universities in this country is an embarassment and makes great use of an ability to rip off neophyte adults with no financial experience and virtually infinite funds thanks to the insane student loan industry (and federal government profit-generating scheme).  Most expensive (and worst) living experience on campus is found at the dorms.  Most expensive (and worst) food on campus is found at the dorms.  Stop extorting students and allow them to live where they choose, eat where they choose, and spend their limited income how they choose.  It is Universities' own fault that they have so severely mismanaged their campuses and "Dorm Life" for decades and still want to expand the scope of the schools to be a mini-nanny state.  Privatize everything.  Dorms, cafeterias, gyms, club sports, etc.  If people want these ammenities: the market will provide.  If they don't, the facilities and activities will not be supportable and won't continue to exist in perpetuity thanks to forcing students to subsidize Universities' poor decisions. 

 

dcmaizeandblue

February 25th, 2015 at 12:51 PM ^

My house sophomore year where my room was a converted porch with no heat would like to speak to you about the worst living experience on campus. In fact my house senior year blew as well so I don't really agree with you at all on that.

Also I would have hated to have to start my college experience and make that huge transition in addition to finding my own place to live there. Plus that's a great way to force socialization for people in a new place is having them live together. You think that's overpriced for meals where you could take as much food as you wanted? The amount of cereal and waffles I ate a day more than made up for that cost.

yossarians tree

February 25th, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^

Golly I love that school and I went to school there some time ago and all that being said there were some major dipshits and assholes on campus and I gotta believe a number of them are in the student government and a number more are going before the student government with stupid busybody ideas like this one. Unfortunately several of them will end up working in Washington D.C. without a doubt.

HarbaughToMichigan

February 25th, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^

I think people are pissed because this is an obvious resume-building activity for some Ross School corporate wannabes who probably care more about what brand of shitty vodka they are drinking at the pregame than Michigan tradition.  If this was a nice song written by a 25 year season ticket holder named Benjamin "Blue Blood" Bradley, we would be a hell of a lot more open.  These East Coast marketing majors care more about a line on their respective resumes than a winning Michigan football team.  I bet these kids already have a script in their mind to talk about their "leadership" in a "campus-wide" "grassroots" "crowd-funded' "initiative" to "reinvigorate" and "reenergize" and "synergize" Michigan football.

What's Dave Brandon doing?  Seems like he would love to hire these big-headed marketng-guru blowhards.

the real hail_yes

February 25th, 2015 at 12:32 PM ^

Do the motives really matter? I work with people who go to work for the paycheck and some who live and breath for the company... as long as you're here and doing something productive I don't really care.



I get why people are turned off by what they perceive as a self-serving activity, but when people stop trying to innovate then things become stagnant and dated... There is absolutely no harm in this.