"Meal Plan Costs Tick Upward as Students Pay for More Than Food" By Lisl Wangermann Period 1

Stephanie Saul's article "Meal Plan Costs Tick Upward as Students Pay for More Than Food" was published by the New York Times on December 5, 2015. Some colleges are now requiring all students to pay for a mandatory meal plan. This students, who already face exorbitant tuition fees, are alarmed, and rightly so. The majority of this additionally money is not being used to increase the quality of the food on campus; it is being put towards contracts with huge campus dining corporations, who promise large signing bonus and additional money for renovations. This in turn helps these colleges receive better national ranks, but it does not directly benefit the students.This new trend is hard pill to swallow for all students but especially for those who live off campus and who do not frequent campus dining halls.

Recently, the price of college tuition has become an extremely controversial subject. College now costs an unreasonable amount of money, which many people cannot afford. Unfortunately this means that a lot of people who want a college education cannot get one, and that it just unfair. These additionally meal plan fees are just another expense that makes it hard for people to go to college. Additionally, it does not even enrich the quality of their education, which reminds me of the Whiskey Ring, which was a corruption scandal in taxes went directly into the pockets of businessmen and politicians rather than into things that improve the lives of United States citizens, like taxes are supposed to. I think that it basic right that when people pay for something, they get the thing they are paying for in return, and in this situation, that is not happening.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/meal-plan-costs-tick-upward-as-students-pay-for-more-than-food.html?src=me&_r=0