Re: “Campus food not just meals, students say,” published in The Star March 29:
What a bunch of crybabies. Let me count the ways:
1. The students say they “won’t get enough nutrients for their brains.” How about bringing a sandwich and a multivitamin from home?
2. What are the students who use wheelchairs going to do when they get in the real world? Make their employers put in a cafeteria under the Americans with Disabilities Act? See above about the sandwich and vitamin, and add a Powerbar for extra strength.
3. Having a cafeteria “teaches punctuality.” I don’t want the instructors wasting time teaching punctuality at college level. If parents and high school have not taught punctuality, it’s a lost cause by now.
— Mike Newman, Camarillo
I agree 100%. I graduated from Ventura College in 2003 at age 40 as a single mother, employed full time and going to school part time. Some days I packed 3 meals and toted them to school, to work and back to school again, eating all three meals and sometimes taking naps in my car. I ate cheaper, more nutritious meals and did not have to stand in line, nor put up with walking through cigarette smoke to get to the cafeteria. I did this out of necessity, and now I pack my lunch out of sheer enjoyment. My daughter and my husband both prefer to pack picnics for lunch as well. I see the point of closing the food service. It is costing more money than it takes in. Well, DUH! Maybe these people need a special math class to figure this one out. LORI LEACH Ventura College Class of 2003