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Forget the 'interfaith' room - We need a mall
La Voz Editorial Staff
Issue date: 4/24/06 Section: Editorials
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Few things in life are worse than the greasy pizza from the Campus Center. One of those things is renovating the Campus Center without upgrading the food.
This editorial wouldn't be controversial if we simply told you that the food offered at De Anza College tastes worse than soggy cardboard. So, instead, we decided to go one step further and propose a solution: the De Anza Mall.
The college should construct a midsized mall on campus with a Rio Adobe, In-N-Out Burger, a Jamba Juice, a book exchange, a movie theater, an arcade and some shopping outlets.
The mall is exactly what this campus needs. It would give students a reason to care about De Anza, it would attract new students, and it would give us healthy alternatives to greasy and overpriced pizza.
On top of that, now is an opportune time: the campus center is already slated to be renovated with money from Measure C, the $491 million bond measure on the June ballot.
Instead of a more impressive Student Council Chambers, we can give students meaningless entertainment. After all, the student senators play games on their computers - why shouldn't students have access to the same games?
Instead of an "interfaith" room, the college can condone meaningless violence by offering paint ball during lunch.
Instead of subjecting students to more low quality cafeteria food, we can leave food up to the experts: In-N-Out and Rio Adobe. Come to think of it, almost any other food vendor would be an improvement over what we can buy on campus today:
- The only place you can find worse pizza is at a middle school cafeteria. Even Sbarro is a cut above our greasy slices that stick to the roof of your mouth.
- Our burgers could be sold with the slogan, "microwaved to perfection."
- Our salad bar, if you can call it that, is regularly understocked with stale salads and limp lettuce.
Better on-campus food options would save students gas: they'll no longer have to drive to Whole Foods to get a decent meal.
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