Word: meatlessness
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Mayer's original proposal included a provision for channeling the savings from meatless days into a program for world food relief. But the Food Services staff is skeptical about the amount of money that would be saved, citing the rising cost of fish and meat substitutes. "We would still have to provide a menu acceptable to our customers, the students," says Benjamin H. Walcott '63, assistant to the director of the Food Services. "And it might cost more to keep customer satisfaction...
...emphasizes that the impetus for such a change in consumption patterns at Harvard must come from students themselves, noting that "no college administrator in 1974 would be so demented as to impose a change in diet." President Bok, who has asked his staff to research the possibility of instituting meatless days, has said that "you cannot impose that kind of morality" on students...
...just what the consensus of student opinion is on the issue--and for many students, food is a very touchy subject. Jeffrey W. White '75, a member of Harvard Ecology Action, says he hopes to get the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life to approve an experimental period of meatless days, but adds that "no action should be taken unless there is a definite movement of student opinion." White and other members of Ecology Action distributed a questionnaire in some House dining halls last week and found that over half of the approximately 600 students polled favored some version...
Proponents of the meatless-days plan emphasize the importance of educating students about nutrition. Mayer cautions against rushing into anything, saying that "it is much more important for people to understand why they should not eat meat." And Frank J. Weissbecker, director of the Food Services, points out that if the plan is simply imposed on students who have no real understanding of the purposes behind it, "it'll be too bad if they just run off to McDonald's and swell that 15-billion figure...
...would be more consistent with the policies of this university to make various options available and to improve the level of education, rather than mandating a change to meatless days," she says. "Students here will one day be in the food industry, on boards of health, and they'll be heads of families. They should be educated consumers." Shore sees a growing interest in nutrition among students and is considering a number of ways to spread that interest even further--including showing educational videotapes on the subject to students in the University Health Services waiting room...