Alumni Musings
Leave it to the University of Maryland's student newspaper -The Diamondback- to fan the flames of a match and try to start a forest fire.
Their editorial's complaint (which is redundant, because all their editorial does is complain) is that the a new Meal Plan called "All-Campus" is too confusing.
Basically, the plan works likes this: if you have $100 on it (hypothetically, or course), at some places you'd pay full price and some places you'd pay a markup. Why? Because apparently Dining Services doesn't fully run all of the food location on campus, and has to use the mark-up to insure that those locations are included in the program.
According to the editorial, the problem is: "During the trial, officials uncovered that students didn't understand the complex system of ratios, causing them to run out of points." Sounds like the problem is students cannot do division, which is basic math. With SAT scores going down, is there any surprise?
Possibly, because even though the editorial and the news story took jabs, neither offered a solution nor an alternative. On the other hand, no one ever said journalists were math experts.
I'd think the best solution is to have the students (not just RHA) decide what needs to be sacrificed in order for this thing to work; obviously something has to be if they don't want to have to carry calculators around all day.
Their editorial's complaint (which is redundant, because all their editorial does is complain) is that the a new Meal Plan called "All-Campus" is too confusing.
Basically, the plan works likes this: if you have $100 on it (hypothetically, or course), at some places you'd pay full price and some places you'd pay a markup. Why? Because apparently Dining Services doesn't fully run all of the food location on campus, and has to use the mark-up to insure that those locations are included in the program.
According to the editorial, the problem is: "During the trial, officials uncovered that students didn't understand the complex system of ratios, causing them to run out of points." Sounds like the problem is students cannot do division, which is basic math. With SAT scores going down, is there any surprise?
Possibly, because even though the editorial and the news story took jabs, neither offered a solution nor an alternative. On the other hand, no one ever said journalists were math experts.
I'd think the best solution is to have the students (not just RHA) decide what needs to be sacrificed in order for this thing to work; obviously something has to be if they don't want to have to carry calculators around all day.
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