dietary restrictions that limit our dining hall options or simply prefer to prepare our own food. Giving students more of a choice in the matter would be great. A plan that included either a 21 meals/week or unlimited option as well as options for fewer meals would seem to work best for the most students. I'll go ahead and add myself to the group of people who say Middlebury's meal plan was a major attraction when deciding where to go to school. I visited other schools during my decision making process, and something about having to swipe a card made meal time seem so institutionalized. In a small way, being able to eat freely in the dining halls makes Middlebury feel more like home. College is a major transition period in a person's life, and any way of facilitating this transition an making it more comfortable is, in my opinion, invaluable, thus making it completely worth any extra monetary expenditures. I think, regardless of whether a full meal plan is implemented, it makes a ton of sense to begin swiping students as they enter the dining halls. One thing that would work in terms of keeping the open aspect would be to give each student some number of free guest passes a semester, like ten. That way, we could preserve the option of bringing guests (family) to the dining hall without allowing "townies" or others to take advantage of our open dining policy. My thought is that it would be