The "Umph"

I think all students will agree—The Umphrey Lee cafeteria is pretty good. From the “Spa Cuisine” to the omelet station, our food is not too shabby. You can have pasta, pizza, sandwiches, hamburgers, “home cooking”, salads or omelets on pretty much any day of the week. Then there is the dessert section filled with all kinds of cookies, cakes and ice cream. Sure, it is all good, but it’s the same food every day. The home cooking varies, but everything else stays the same. And I don’t know if I’m the only student here who thinks the food completely sucks on the weekends. If you walk in the “Umph” on Saturday or Sunday, your choices of food are limited. Why do they half-ass the food on the weekends? Sure, more people eat off campus on the weekends, but there are equally as many people who do not. I just checked my account to see how much money I pay for my meal plan--$2100. I definitely do not feel like I’m getting my $2100 out of the Umphrey Lee.

The food is also not the healthiest. I just asked two girls what they thought about the Umphrey Lee, and they replied, “Oh the Fat-Ass Lee?” It’s true. With all the sugary cereal, waffles, cookies, cakes, pizzas, burgers and fries, it’s next to impossible to eat healthy. Why don’t they start offering healthier choices?

The “Umph” is really nice, and I like the food. There’s no denying that the food is really good. But seriously, why doesn’t SMU offer more, preferably healthier choices to their students who are paying tens of thousands of dollars a year to go to school here?

 

 

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Parking on campus? Ehh, not so much...

Okay, am I the only one who thinks that parking at SMU completely sucks? Correct me if I’m wrong, but SMU’s parking situation is probably most students’ least favorite thing about SMU.

I am a freshman, and I live in Boaz. Freshmen mainly have to park in the parking garages, which aren’t completely horrible. It’s pretty inconvenient at times when you need to run an errand or something. You must get your keys and your student ID card, walk to the garage, walk up the stairs, get in your car and head out. Well once you actually get to the electronic arm at the exit, it might not always work. Many times I have tried to take the Ownby exit, but the scanner simply reads, “Access Denied”. After the scanner displayed this one particular time, I looked in my rearview mirror. There were two cars behind me, and I had to embarrassingly shift my car into reverse. Those two little white reverse lights caused quite a scene. I had to make the other cars move so I could back up and go to the other exit. After pulling some James Bond-style driving moves, I finally headed for the other exit—Binkley Ave. Once I got there, my student ID swiped just fine! And I finally got on my way…

Returning to campus and parking can sometimes be equally as frustrating. When you realize there are no spots on the 3^rd or 4^th level, it’s up to the 5^th level.  Then you have to walk down five flights of stairs or wait for the elevator. Frustrating, once again.

I don’t know how parking works at other dorms on campus, but behind Boaz Hall, there is a nice parking lot. The first few days of school, everyone thought the girls that live in Boaz could park there—right at the back door of Boaz Hall. How convenient, right? Wrong. We have just found out that the parking lot that connects Boaz to the Cox School of Business is for faculty/staff. How crazy is that? A nice, big parking lot right behind Boaz Hall, but us residents can’t even park there.

Students can park behind McElvaney and other dorms, right? So why can’t students park behind Boaz? Why should students have to walk across the street to the parking garage when there is a perfectly good parking lot outside the back door of Boaz Hall?