If I became president of Southern Arkansas University, the first change I would put into motion would be the addition of a Fall break. There is a very long stretch of school days between Labor Day and Thanksgiving break, and I have seen students, including myself, slowly becoming burnt out in their courses. If the addition of a Fall break was unattainable, I believe a happy medium would be to extend Thanksgiving break by two days making the break an entire week long. These extra days could be compensated for during finals week, except I would classify these days as review days where no new material is covered. The addition of two days to Thanksgiving Break would allow students to get plenty of rest, and makes out-of-state students travel back home more feasible especially for those students that live far away.
As for my second and final motion as President, I believe a cafeteria food revamp is much needed. During my first semester here at Southern Arkansas University, I can count the number of times I have been to the cafeteria on one hand. While high school students are given little choice on what they eat, that is luxury that is soon gained in college. The choices are clearly not the problem, on any given day you have multiple meal options in the cafeteria. The problem is that those options do not taste good. Honestly, I don’t think they know what the words seasoning or healthy means. The times that I have been to the cafeteria the entrée bar usually consisted of some meat lying in a pan full off its own grease and some pasta dish that clearly came from a box. Upon seeing this I immediately resorted to the salad bar for something a little fresher, only to be disappointed by wilted greens and poor quality dressings. As a solution, I would place more incentive on the cooking staff to produce a better quality product and increase the food budget to allow for fresher, better quality ingredients that would subsequently improve the quality of the food.
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