Instead, most students settle for a carbo-heavy diet, filling up on cereal, pasta, and bread. Unappealing entrees turn students off to protein. Calcium also seems to be missing in student diets. Half-hearted attempts at vegetarian and vegan entrees leave students to their own devices. At least the dining halls provide the tools for students to get creative.
Snack bars offer little respite for the health-conscious.
The Gate's pizza and Josiah's grill are hardly healthy. Any attempt at a salad is pre-packaged and any attempt at fruit is days past its prime. Brown has a responsibility to make sure its students can eat well if they want to, and that responsibility goes beyond leaving a single copy of a book of nutritional values somewhere in a massive dining hall. The University can and should do more. With several thousand students on meal plan, UFS has enough purchasing power to ensure it is getting fresh food, from produce to meats.