

With over 8,000 students, periods of service would be limited to mere two-week terms. All students would be required to enlist and serve their campus while simultaneously serving kalua pork, shrimp etouffee and plant-based chorizo to their classmates.

Our contingency plan should model military conscription in Israel. We are only one panini maker accident away from losing even more of our dining hall heroes. A bout of COVID-19 or a tragic Mexican fajita line accident could wipe out a drove of essential workers. Shift Father JayJay Jaykins into this role, which would maintain his enigmatic cult of reputation.Īlthough we have yet to reach dire wait times, a backup plan must be established.

The following is a preliminary list of some obvious job reassignments. Prioritization is difficult, but we must reallocate existing campus staff to the most underserved teams. This raises the question, what can be done to rescue Notre Dame’s fine dining establishments? Our campus dining halls are cornucopias - cradling not just our food but the foundations of a Notre Dame education. What will be the fate of the infamous freshman 15 if the Brazilian flank steak line is not conducive to seconds and thirds? Campus dietitians speculate the difficulty in obtaining food will lead to the inverse freshman 15, when students lose weight faster than Tom Brady on a keto diet. It appears even they had had enough mask-to-mask contact with students over the past year. Supposedly, the HERE Ambassadors were returned to their pre-pandemic posts here, and there, but certainly not in the dining hall. The “Quesadilla Action Station” gets more action than the Office of Community Standards after Halloweekend. The labor shortage across the buffet line has transferred an unbalanced wait time to what were once reliable safe havens in the far end of the buffet line. One of the two homestyle stations has been consistently replaced by a DIY Subway sandwich line, just without the chemically modified bread and footlong options to boot. Who knows what they chose instead of a specialty salad - God forbid the vegan line. I was devastated to witness a group of first-years opt for the conventional salad bar on their first Boom Boom Chicken Salad Tuesday. The stir fry queue is more deceptive than the Zahm engravings still chiseled in the stone outside of Sorin Community Hall. The large bowls and flat plates run scarce in their cubbies. Take the dining hall - far understaffed with waits increasing drastically. Many thought that with the end of their reign we would see them return to their pre-pandemic roles. The occupation of HERE Ambassadors lasted nearly ten months. Our campus militia clad in green polos and khakis have seemingly vanished. However, what I found once I started interviewing went deeper than I ever thought it would. As a Scholastic reporter in the field, I felt it was my duty to collect this sentiment into a piece that could really make an impact. Restrictions on student life from the top brass at Notre Dame rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
