Many of them feel that they are here to make a statement, to be separated from their old lives, and sometimes they do that with eating. If they are meat eaters, they are fanatics. McQuillan doesn't want to stifle freshman creativity, but she says sometimes new dietary habits can weaken under duress. Lots of students have become vegetarians over the last three years. No one is ready to make predictions.
Tastes change in all sorts of ways.
Stanford is a multicultural place, so chances are we will get to see a little bit of everything as time goes on.