BAD NEWS: Kenyon College has closed our traditional cafeteria, Gund Dining Hall.
GOOD NEWS: Kenyon College has closed the tiny, cramped, totally inadequate cafeteria, Gund Dining Hall.
What have they replaced it with? Well, there’s good news and bad news.
GOOD NEWS: There’s a new, thousand seat dining hall being put in Pierce-Dempsey, the hall in the center of the campus.
BAD NEWS: It won’t be ready until 2008.
So what are they doing in the meantime? Well, there’s good news and bad news.
GOOD NEWS: They have a new, interim dining hall, which they call the “food court.” It’s not a real food court, but a modular-style cafeteria, featuring better food (there’s a new chef), several different forms of vegan protein at meals, plus (and this is near and dear to the UU heart) much better coffee. They call it a “food court” because it’s in the old basketball court.
BAD NEWS: The old basketball court is right across the street from the new athletic center, which, as regulars know, is way down the hill from the campus. And what are they doing about this? Well, there’s good news and bad news.
GOOD NEWS: From the North Campus, Kenyon will be running shuttle busses from the book store to the new dining facilities. From the South Campus, Kenyon’s put in a new pathway, less steep than the old ones, perfect for walkers
BAD NEWS: There really isn’t any.
PLUS there’s only good news about what it will contain. The SI Bookstore will move with us, and set up actually in the dining hall. The After-Supper Club, with supervised activities for youngsters, allowing adults to linger over the new, excellent coffee, will still be there. The boo-boo station will still be there. And you’ll still be able to get your evening copy of The Kaleidoscope, SI’s official newsletter, there every evening.
It’s a new experience, with both pluses and minuses, but we think you’re going to like it.
2 comments:
Sounds like a wonderful alternative and a chance for the "other end of campus" to enjoy an early breakfast without a long walk.
Sorry, but the SI Planning Committee has decided that bikes won't be allowed on the new sloping path down to the Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC) and the food court in Ernst Gym. Even though the new path is sloping, it's still too steep to be safe for bikes...Dave Murray, '07 SI assistant chair
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