If the highway near my house is clear tomorrow i'll go in but if not, fuck that. My safety isn't less important just because i work in a fucking cafeteria.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Ability to afford food is increasingly a class discrepancy. The richer students will all have mini-fridges and microwaves and cars to drive to the grocery store with. Poorer students, especially ones on scholarships, would be left behind without the dining halls. I would pack food out of the dining hall in tupperwares all the time, but by the end of my time in the dorms they were cracking down on that, and I can't imagine having a supply that would last me more than 2 days. Idk if you're on an urban campus, but without the dining halls, suburban and rural campuses would be food deserts.

None of this is to say that you should be obligated to commute in. They have the ability to put you up in an empty dorm room for a few days, AND pay you overtime on top of that, without breaking the books.

On-campus housing is one of the clearest examples of the financialization of higher education. Also it's yet another illustration of how the logistics of where we live are ridiculous.