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M Campus ( '-"'By College Press Service Candlelight flickers on the white finen table cloths. The buffet line features a carving station with top sirloin of beef, smoked turkey breasts, quail - and venison. The muted strains of - some jazzy blues help add to the inti(nate atmosphere. The chairs are plush, the carpet thick, the dress codes strict. Welcome to the campus cafeteria of ) the 1990s. For Carmen DiSylvestro, assistant director of dining services at Salisbury State University in eastern Maryland, teaching students about the finer points of fine dining is just as important as English literature and world economics. In the campus dining room, the enHemy is "boredom, monotony and stagnation," DiSylvestro said. He is not alone. All over the counl'dty, campus dining halls are ringing 'with a culinary revolution of sorts. |>?Gone are the days of mystery meat, " mashed potatoes with bright yellow . gravy and lime Jell-0 dessert. Cafete>ria food is no longer a contradiction -,tfn terms. A* Cnlickiin; o cmoll pAmnrphpncivp I /vi jaiUL/uij, a juiftii vv/iupivwviwifv . university that specializes in business , 2nd nursing schools, the upscale dining room with its candles and soft music is just part of a comprehensive ; effort to give students what they want and what they need. Salisbury's regui lar dining room may feature the more Portable computers cause b\ 1 Harvard stu By College Press Service CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ?At first glance, the gray Apple Powerbook doesn't look like a threat. After all, it's small (measuring but a foot across and weighing a modest seven pounds), and it exists to help students. But in libraries and lecture halls at Harvard University, the first rumblings of a backlash against users of this I seemingly harmless piece of technology are being heard. As more and more students purchase the Macintosh laptops, the clickety-clack of noisy typing emanating from the machines has attracted the ire or inose students wno sun press pen to paper. Freshman David Harrison said he gets irritated during reading period *1 ^ UbkJ JSS \ ^ ' 0 ^f9 B wHk lining stri traditional cafeteria line with rock 'n' roll on the loudspeakers, but the food is definitely first class. They fly in live lobsters form Maine, offer rattlesnake, deer and buffalo meat as well as gamefish during Game Night, and even bring in opera singers to perform during Italian Night. At Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, dining services offer 34 different beverages, students can whip up their own concoctions in woks, and students' favorite recipes from home are regularly given trial runs. If they prove popular, they become part of the regular menu. AnH fit PninnbA C*aIIahp in CiIaiyi iuiu ni iwauv/ivv v^v/iiv^v. in uaiviii, Va., chef Bob Prophet plies a trade he learned at New York's Culinary Institute of America and practiced at Hilton Head Island restaurants. "Much of this is being driven by student demands," said Dick Phelan, who has been head of Roanoke's dining services for 24 years. "The biggest changes I've seen are vegetarian entrees, self-service items such as make-your-own waffles, pas ta bars and concerns about fat. Three or four years ago, everyone was counting calories. Now they're counting fat grams." Getting a certified chef was a major improvement for Roanoke College, he added. Chef Bob, as he is called, lavishes his customers with a wide dessert selection of homemade pies and cakes, fresh fruit and hard-scoop izz at Ivy League school dents compl; when Powerbook users ignore the "million signs" posted by libraries restricting laptop use to certain areas. "It really makes it hard to study," said Harrison, who wonders if Powerbook users lack the requisite reading skills to understand the restriction signs. Using a Powerbook can make the users as uncomfortable as those around them. Some students say that when they take out their portable computers, people treat them as though they have a mild form of leprosy. Junior Edith Replogle, a Powerbook user, said she gets duty looks when she uses her collapsible computer in the proper areas of the library. "I feel uncomfortable, even though it's legal technically," Replogle said. H K I n JM 1% Mk^ " J? HB? ' i^fl ^KtS '1 y^K^nt&tjij:;, ,,^.jj^Sfr ^k 1 mfft^KM-' i^i^mW H L^^K 9H?:; . | |H Bjk \ 9| 10?m \m *K jj? RMffl ves to be* ice cream. Pizzas feature toppings of pesto, fresh vegetables and garlic with white cheese sauce. Phelan said the proof of the dining hall's success is not so much in the pudding, but in the pudding eaters. "Our participation is up 10 percent with 975 food contracts, and we are feeding about 60 percent of the faculty and staff," he said. At Wartburg College, where Don Juhl has been rood service director since 1966, the fierce competition from fast-food restaurants has sparked many changes in his dining room. "We have seven major fast-food chains just two blocks from the dorms," he said. "We've had to become more competitive and have had to really get into marketing or our business will go elsewhere." Wartburg's dining room is set up with seven different food courts, which works much better, Juhl said, than the traditional single cafeteria line. "One of the most popular is the wok court," he said. "We have six woks set up and offer a variety of W 11^311 VtgtUlUlW. YVt IWVt IUUII with three types of toppings and two types of pasta. It's all self-serve." Each year during the spring term, Wartburg holds a recipe contest for students for main entrees, salads and soups. Each day, a new entry is tried out. Anyone who tries gets a vote. The winner gets added to the menu. ain Apple Po "One person once in a lecture said I was typing too loud, so I stopped typing so loud. It wasn't dramatic." Sydney Freedbert Harvard Powerbook user She also said she is so self-conscious about her Powerbook that she sometimes feels guilty about using it even when no one else is around. And freshman Peggy Nguyen, who uses her Powerbook to take notes in lectures, said some students purposely avoid sitting next to her because she is carrying a Powerbook. But Sydney Freedbert, a senior and SI :ome more College students 1 By College Press Service STANFORD, Calif. ? In the beginning, tl tery meat. Then came steam tables, whic teria food, well, a little more gluey than cared to contemplate. Then there was convenience food and and college campuses caught onto the n ward healthier eating. Now institutions ar ways to cut the fat in addition to serving iti consumption. "We have so many students from all o\ that we're trying to satisfy, it's a real cha Shirley Everett, associate director of the 5 rv;_: c ? a ? e. f I . VCIMiy L/IIUIlg ??CrVIlC3. f\l JU1IL1UIU, wc a ians (12 percent by survey information), students and athletes, among others. We peting with Mom's cooking, and you can "Students are eating lighter and are but i much more selective than in the past," We I Juhl said. "And very few of them come ing from the traditional family where McC mom stays home and cooks. Most of they the students are more familiar with Di convenience foods, the kinds of bur) things they get at fast-food restau- ingi rants, in the boarding schools and mail high schools." "V DiSylvestro at Salisbury agrees. Mar "I find that you have to have a com- fron fort zone for your customers, or they said won't give it a chance," he said. "All loca of our soups are made from scratch, fest werbooks are another Powerbook user, said such U cold shoulder treatment isn't much of ren a problem. . twe "One person once in a lecture said dor I was typing too loud, so I stopped con typing so loud," Freedbert said. "It L; wasn't dramatic." elec But while some hate users for their sec< noise, others rely on them for their ded notes. Nguyen said that while some and students isolate her, others purpose- Log ly sit close by to copy the notes they Lan missed. resj "I get more positive reaction than plai negative," Nguyen said, adding that noi: sne uses tne computer Decause it v> helps her focus and keeps her from boo falling asleep. "There are some peo- the pie annoyed by it, and some people relc think it's the Coolest (thing) in the roo world." floe I Whaley' Ticket Ti Problem: What a exam, yuur ruuiT term paper and n to see...a < You n your Solution: Move edge of campus, living with on-cai may think it cost Whaley's Mill off leases to uppe students. So save Whaley's Mill wh Now for Sumr m health c find ways to inc difficult that is." tere was mys- Currently, the ui h made cafe- ria-style meals a d; one's palate staff members and ucate students ab "freshman 20"?tl microwaves, , , . ~ dents gain their fir indulgence in a hi, e looking for Not the cafeieri 2ms for quick dishes, vegetarian < yogurt. Students m er the world get "grab and go" s illenee." said cprtnrA ond o litA.n ' jvi viw oiiu a miv ii Stanford Uni- Qn campus, ierve vegetar- The. university d international grilled items such 're also com- chip cookies are al imagine how "We can't bake t they have to look like Campbell's, have a spice rack out in the dinroom, but it all has to have the lormick label because that's what are used to seeing at home." iSylvestro, who has been at Salis' for eight years, believes educatstudents about food is one of his i jobs. Ce're close to the eastern shore of fland, and we get a lot of students i New York and New Jersey," he . "We try to introduce them to the 1 food customs. We'll have a crab and bring in 15,000 crabs in sea1 1 too ioua Undergraduate libraries are curtly trying to avert a conflict been those who use and those who i't by segregating the potential ibatants. amont Library recently installed trical outlets next to carrels on the and floor. Library officials have icated the area to computer users renamed it the Lamont Laptop e. jon Lanham, associate library at lont, said the Loge was created in jonse to a large number of comnts made last semester about the sy typing from the laptop users, fidener Library encourages Powerik users to work at the east end of reading room, and Hilles Library igates laptop users to the typing ms on the first, second and third ?rs. sMillo Bettei day! You didn't d late accidentally c ow this. The last t dreaded parking ti eed to n life easi to Whaley's Mill. Whaley's Mill offt mpus convenieno s more to live clo: ers low student rai rclasspersons as v ; time, and money ere parking ticket; the past. Pre-Leas nerand I wl V :onscious :rease nutrition niversity serves about 11,000 cafetety to students. Twenty professional dieticians help plan menus and edout avoiding the "freshman 10" or tie number of pounds that many stust year away from home because of ?h-fat diet. as offer entrees such as pasta, ethnic dishes, salad bars, quiche and frozen vho get hungry between meals can I ? _i c - i .anuwicncs irom an anemoon snacK tight espresso bar and soda fountain ining service also serves up popular as chicken nuggets, and chocolate ways a favorite. :nough of them," Everett said. son and serve them up with hush puppies and fried chicken. In October, we fly in 22,000 live lobsters from Maine." Salisbury serves about 3,500 meals a day to a population of about 6,000 students. "Our chef is the type of person who likes to take risks," DiSylvestro said. 'You have to be a bit bizarre at times. We celebrate everyone's birthday at once wnn an eu-ioot ice cream sundae. It's impressive." Your r Living o well on your Jiscarded your hing you want cket(s). nake ier! 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