Students living downhill who sacrifice sleep to trek to early-morning classes can now grab a bite to eat on their way.
Hodgdon Good-to-Go will introduce extended morning hours today, opening half an hour earlier in order to accommodate students on their way to 8:05 a.m. classes.
The a-la-carte dining hall will open at 7:30 a.m. from now on, after Dining Services announced its second expansion of hours at an on-campus eatery in the last week.
Director of Dining Services Patti Klos said that many students polled in the department's fall survey wanted more early-morning eating options.
"One of the things that stood out to us was dissatisfaction with hours of service, especially breakfast downhill," she said. "There seems to be more classes that start at 8:05 [a.m.] than we realized, and we wanted to address that."
Students have long been able to eat an early-morning meal at the uphill Carmichael Dining Hall, which opens at 7:15 on weekdays. But student interest in having more late-night dining options prompted Dining Services to shift Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall's hours back by one hour at the beginning of the fall 2006 semester. The downhill eatery now opens at 8:15 a.m. instead of 7:15, and closes at 9 p.m. instead of 8.
"Students had asked for [Dewick] to be open later," Klos said. "There was a bigger demand for downhill eating late at night."
This change has left early-rising students without a downhill eatery to serve their needs over the past three semesters. Klos hopes that opening Hodgdon earlier will alleviate this problem.
Klos told the Daily that she is also considering extending late-night weekend hours at Carmichael and Dewick. Klos said these plans are only in preliminary stages, and would not elaborate on them.
