The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-dining/page/3/)
The sight of students studying in Libe Cafe, drinks in hand, reminds passerby that Cornell Dining has transitioned to a “new normal.” While some COVID precautions remain in place, including masking when not dining and regular cleaning, more cafes have opened for dining in.
Cornell Dining will introduce a new dining hall, two new cafes and accessibility initiatives for a fall semester with fewer COVID restrictions.
Despite the general vibe around campus that food from the dining halls has been lackluster, Ally Mark ’24 has found many diamonds in the rough. Here are her top five favorite Cornell dining hall dinners and deserts, like the gouda mac and cheese which helped her dance through the rigors of CHEM 2080.
Cornell was the first Ivy to be certified by the Marine Stewardship Council for serving sustainable seafood in 2012, and today campus dining halls continue to provide students with fresh fish and crustaceans on a regular basis.
Following almost a year of being closed, The Ivy Room will now be integrated into Okenshields.
Student workers and diners with Cornell Dining face unsafe overcrowding and ill-prepared food this semester.
Students workers bear heavy workloads and COVID risks across Cornell’s campus.
Columnist Joshua Epstein writes “The three meals usually featured soda, chips, and cookies … Many students joked on their social media about Cornell’s only distinction between lunch and dinner being a different brand of potato chips.”
$147 and a big shopping cart were basically my Saturday afternoon in a nutshell. Five large, packed grocery bags wobbled back and forth inside the cart as I meandered my way to the bus stop. The bus came before I was there, so I had to run uphill and unload my cargo onto the decently occupied vehicle. I left the cart on the road; if you found one stranded around the Ithaca Mall, it could have been me. I apologize.
I am a freshman in the School of Engineering and an international student. This last detail is important because from Aug. 17 to Aug. 31, I had to quarantine in my room, eating only the boxed meals provided by Cornell Dining. During, and well after my time in mandated quarantine, widespread complaints about two issues circulated: The overuse of single-use plastics and inadequate waste disposal.