Let us first establish a list of the guilty, and recall the events that have made them so. Galen Benshoof ’06, Buster Zalkind ’07, and Chris Thompson ’06 have taken it upon themselves to use their positions as elected ASPC Senators for the purposes of getting Dean of Student Ann Quinley to move one night of Snack to South Campus. Well, congratulations to the “South Campus Team,” for pissing off nearly every upper classman. Similarly, thank you for taking advantage of a simple facility use anomaly as grounds for undoing over three decades of Snack tradition. As angry as the fine folks here at The Student Life are about this change, the Editorial Board, half of which lives on South Campus, will not go about its usual rant and rave. Do not let this fool you, however; we are very, very angry and even ashamed at your lack of respect for not only tradition but also your fellow Senators representing students who live on North Campus, who were never consulted or even informed that this plan was in the works.

What we are angrier, nay infuriated about, is the situation in which you have put the workers of Dining Services. In your unresearched move to please constituents, you have altered the work schedules and pay expectations of the Dining Hall workers that tirelessly feed us all day in, day out, seven days a week.

Some explanation is needed, of course. By moving Snack to South Campus, Benshoof, Zalkind, and Thompson have taken hours away from a sizable group of employees who depend on these hours, about five hours in total per Snack lost to South Campus, to provide for themselves and their families. Now, workers at Frank Dining Hall are having to work overtime, which while lucrative, is not inline with their typical schedules, and their coworkers at Frary will now have shorted paychecks. Thank you, one and all, our bourgeois sentimentality and laziness has come forth once again to claim victory in the name of the wronged.

Frank’s Dining Hall Manager Dorothy Boatwright said that if snack were never to return to Frank, she “would be very happy.” Why, you may ask, while eating your fried goodies that are now a whopping three minutes closer one night a week? Well, Ms. Boatwright does not drive, and requires someone to pick her up. However, now that person cannot, and she is afraid of taking the bus ever since someone chased her at a bus stop last year. If it were not for the kindness in another worker’s heart, she would be forced to sacrifice her wages for a taxi ride home.

She is not alone, however. A certain Frary Dining Hall worker quit his second job so that he could work the hours at Snack each Wednesday. However, after this week he can no longer work at Snack, since it is at Frank instead of Frary. At the time of interview, many other workers were deeply upset at the loss of their hours, and declined to go on record for fear that “causing trouble” would cause them to lose their jobs. The average number of people attending Snack at Frary is between 600-650 students, some of whom are even paying customers from the other 5Cs. On this first Wednesday night, which should presumably be the most popular since it is this year’s inaugural outing on South Campus, a whopping 216 students showed up. That is approximately half the Freshmen class. Not one student from another college showed up. Similarly, last year’s once-weekly North Campus Snack was always vastly more popular than its South Campus sibling. Just who is the “South Campus Team” representing, exactly? Where are the grumbling masses of South Campus residents that are not willing to walk up north, as thousands have done before, for a free food study break?

The fact that these Senators made these changes is outrageous. The fact that they suddenly claimed that it was not a Senate action was even more outrageous, in that it was a significant part of all of their campaign platforms, and the fine folks here at The Student Life feel that if three random underclassmen that were not ASPC Senators acting together approached a Dean with the same concern, the Snack venue would not have been changed. The most outrageous fact however is that just a few years after Pomona students banded together in support of the Dining Hall workers, a group of snotty-nosed, no 8:00 am ID, all living together non-tripled, selfish underclassmen brats have already forgotten them and their struggle, and have subsequently abandoned some of the hardest working staff the College has. Thank you, “South Campus Team.”