WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Starting in mid-September, the dining hall stopped leaving cereal out in Whitman’s Dining Hall during late night. Cereal is now offered on the Lee Snack Bar menu.
“I believe it’s because, rather than eating cereal as part of the meal on site as intended, a large and growing number of students were packing it into paper cups to take for later consumption,” Steve Klass, vice president for campus life, said.
“To control that expensive loss, management made the decision to keep it available at night, but as a portion controlled menu item rather than leaving it sitting out,” Klass said.
According to Bob Volpi, director of dining services, it will take a few weeks to determine how much cereal the dining hall had been losing.