The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-dining/)
The leadership of Cornell Dining and Campus Life Enterprise Services was surprised and disappointed to read the recent Guest Room column, “Dear Cornell: You’re Breaking the Law and Students Are Going Hungry,” featuring opinions and allegations signed by some of our valued partners and other community groups.
Some are surely immune to it by now, but most food service workers can remember the first time they had to chuck pounds upon pounds of perfectly edible food into the waste bin while on the job. The same holds true for students and full-time workers at Cornell Dining. Its a sort of collective trauma that countless workers share. While such superfluous and unthinking waste is tragically commonplace across private food providers across the country, in recent years we have seen legal interventions come into effect that should result in dramatic reductions in food waste. The NYS Food Donation and Food Scrap Recycling Law, which took effect Jan.
Noor Jehan Ahmad ’26, an international student from Pakistan, shared her family recipes with the Cornell community through Morrison Dining’s Pakistan Night.
Cornell Dining and student organizations are working to minimize food waste on campus and fight food insecurity in the community.
North Star Dining expands its evening hours to support students’ academic and extracurricular schedules.
Cornell Dining began the spring 2023 semester with continued sustainability measures and revised allergen policies.
Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery’s permanent closing has sparked student discussion around its food quality and campus dining hall preferences following the opening of new dining halls.
Food allergies are serious — students and dining halls alike have to pay more attention to cross contamination and labeling. While Cornell has made great strides to make its dining halls accessible and safe to everyone, they must refine their labeling process to be more specific when it comes to the label “tree nut” and be careful about container placement.
Citing rising tuition costs and long hours, student workers across campus are calling for the University to raise its minimum wage.
None of us had put together that we happened to visit Morrison Dining on Toni Morrison’s birthday, but it led us down a conversation of the names on buildings and how they came to be there. There has been plenty of discussion around how buildings are named, and even more articles about their origins, but the most important conclusion we landed on was that the names of buildings matter. While nowhere close to a nuclear physicist myself, I know more about Hans Bethe than I do about any other scientist after living in his namesake dorm for the past two years. ILR’s founding dean Irving Ives, Human Ecology’s founder Martha Van Rensselaer, and other notable Cornellians continue their legacies through building names across campus.