Monday, September 7, 2009
Meal Plan Potential
The meal plan systems that have been established at Brigham Young University are excellent resources but fall unbelievably short of their full potential. I understand that the meal plan is devoted primarily for the purpose of giving students the ability to eat at the cafeteria and a select few other eateries on campus, but why stop there? The money allocated to the meal cards should be able to be dispensed anywhere on campus. By expanding the meal cards to be accepted at all on campus businesses will make college life so much easier for all students signed up for any meal plan. Students will be able to buy supplies at the bookstore, print papers at the library, and eat at the cafeteria all with the swipe of a single universal card linked to the university specific account. This new system will be at the pinnacle of convenience for students and encourage support of university institutions, which comes out to be a win-win situation for everyone. This seems to be a logical next step in the evolution of the meal plan.
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ReplyDeleteI like this a lot. You took a very positive aspect towards it all- no mud-slinging. You stressed that while the meal plan is good, there are major flaws that could make it better. If anything, I'd stress maybe why the current system doesn't work even more-- really show the flaws. I'd also stress that BYU is trying to make Freshman year especially simple for us as we're trying to ajust- it'd be a lot simpler to just have a universal meal plan card that works everywhere. That will also appeal to the BYU staff because they want us to be happy. But other than that, well said and I totally agree with you.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great topic and really liked how you focused mostly on all the positive aspects of what this would do rather than the negative aspects that students are currently facing. It will definitely help the audience be more willing to listen to you much better than telling them what a mistake they have made.
ReplyDeleteGreat choice of argument. I would agree that the meal plan system is a bit flawed. But one of my questions would be are you just talking about meal plans or are you talking about like a card for everything. It seems that you want to focus on the meal plan potential but you bring in the bookstore for supplies, for printing papers and such. There is another account on your card which is a signature card which you can to some of this stuff like your laundry and print stuff in the library. Maybe you want to consider making these two systems one in the same. Also clarify who your audience is because you have those who are on meal plans in heritage and in Helamen which are considerably different or to just freshmen overall.
ReplyDeleteThe side of the argument that you present is very well developed. You make very strong arguments that would cause any student reading to be envious of such benefits from a meal plan that you described. The one way that I believe your introduction is weak is how the counter argument is not addressed. In order to provide the strongest base for your article you must identify this and refute it.
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