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SGA, RHA planning spring BBQ
Marissa Lang
Issue date: 2/29/08 Section: News
Dining Services may have to shut down South Campus Dining Hall for up to four hours on Friday April 18 for a barbecue on McKeldin Mall, an SGA-sponsored event the organization hopes will become the "Crab Fest of the spring."
The Crab Fest, an annual event held by the Student Government Association since 2006, is an opportunity for students campuswide to come together and mingle, SGA officials said. The barbecue will be similar, and Dining Services has already agreed to help staff and cater the event. But other details - especially the shutdown of a dining hall - are still tentative, officials added.
Nevertheless, the SGA is working with the Residence Halls Association to put their plan in action, said RHA president Sumner Handy. The RHA passed a bill on Tuesday approving the closure of South Campus Dining Hall for up to four hours in order to handle the demands of the barbecue, resolving that closing a dining hall would not be too much of an inconvenience because the number of transactions that occur on Friday afternoons are among the smallest recorded all week, said RHA senator and SGA legislator Matt Verghese.
Verghese, who also serves as RHA Chair of the Resident Life Advisory Board and SGA Chair of Residential Affairs, said all other on-campus dining locations, including the North Campus Diner, would remain open during the barbecue to accommodate students not attending the event.
"If students do not want to partake in the barbecue," he said, "they will be able to use their meal points at other locations."
Although Dining Services has agreed to help with the barbecue, they have not yet agreed to closing the Dining Hall, Verghese said. In case the department does not agree with the RHA's bill, the RHA Dining Services Committee is also toying with the idea of having a skeleton crew of about seven workers remain at the South Campus Dining Hall. This way, students who aren't attending the barbecue would not be forced to go all the way to North Campus, Handy said.
The Crab Fest, an annual event held by the Student Government Association since 2006, is an opportunity for students campuswide to come together and mingle, SGA officials said. The barbecue will be similar, and Dining Services has already agreed to help staff and cater the event. But other details - especially the shutdown of a dining hall - are still tentative, officials added.
Nevertheless, the SGA is working with the Residence Halls Association to put their plan in action, said RHA president Sumner Handy. The RHA passed a bill on Tuesday approving the closure of South Campus Dining Hall for up to four hours in order to handle the demands of the barbecue, resolving that closing a dining hall would not be too much of an inconvenience because the number of transactions that occur on Friday afternoons are among the smallest recorded all week, said RHA senator and SGA legislator Matt Verghese.
Verghese, who also serves as RHA Chair of the Resident Life Advisory Board and SGA Chair of Residential Affairs, said all other on-campus dining locations, including the North Campus Diner, would remain open during the barbecue to accommodate students not attending the event.
"If students do not want to partake in the barbecue," he said, "they will be able to use their meal points at other locations."
Although Dining Services has agreed to help with the barbecue, they have not yet agreed to closing the Dining Hall, Verghese said. In case the department does not agree with the RHA's bill, the RHA Dining Services Committee is also toying with the idea of having a skeleton crew of about seven workers remain at the South Campus Dining Hall. This way, students who aren't attending the barbecue would not be forced to go all the way to North Campus, Handy said.
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Sumner Handy
posted 2/29/08 @ 7:35 AM EST
It is important to note that closing the Dining Hall is not student leaders' first choice. Dining Services presented to student leaders - not the other way around - the possibility of closing SCDH, citing demands on staff, as ticket sales are projected to be about 1800. (Continued…)
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