Discuss “Dining cooks up another disappointment for first-years”

Starting this semester, Carnegie Mellon Dining Services has made some rather substantial changes to how the meal plans, especially first-year plans, work. When rumors of the new plans first surfaced early last spring, reaction from the student body was not exactly positive. Talk of ?Schatz blocks,? which would force first-year students to use at least one of their meal blocks each week for dinner at Schatz Dining Room in the University Center, filtered from group to group as the rumors spread.

As it turns out, the rumors were true: Incoming first-years were greeted with a plan that was a huge step in the wrong direction by Dining Services. All first-year students on the meal plan are required to eat dinner at Schatz once a week, and meal blocks...