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Buddy could you spare a dime?

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USM's move toward privitizing ancillary services
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Question: It has been pointed out that many universities have had privatized food services for a long time. Ole Miss has had it for over ten years.  Private enterprise food services eliminate a lot of headaches for administrator. Then why is it that USM waited so long to take this action?
 
Answer: Could it be that USM has always served a less affluent student body that was limited in what they could afford? For many years USM had a free textbook rental program for just that reason. A university run food service can offer meals to dorm students without the need to turn a large profit for investors. The figure I have heard is that the current private vendor charges approximately $200 more a year for seven day service than was charged by USM food services in 2003-2004. For students on Pell grants and loans, that's real money. Would they see it as progress? Is Starbuck's what our students need?
 
Could it be that USM's new policy pertaining to the privitization of ancillary services was not designed to serve the USM student?
 
 

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donald

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Not at all!
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It was because food services were top of the heap.  Great food.  Tasty and priced right.  It is also the case that food services made money for USM.  Now comes Tiny Thames and fouls it all up.  Check the records.  You will see I am right.

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Angeline

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Could it be that USM's new policy pertaining to the privitization of ancillary services was not designed to serve the USM student?


I don't intend this to sound as mean as it looks but the answer to your question is "Duh!"  Students pay more, employees pay more, more money can go to corrupt raises for the genetically related and local bidness.



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Call the Man

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Originally posted by: Angeline
"Could it be that USM's new policy pertaining to the privitization of ancillary services was not designed to serve the USM student?
I don't intend this to sound as mean as it looks but the answer to your question is "Duh!"  Students pay more, employees pay more, more money can go to corrupt raises for the genetically related and local bidness."


Not to local bidness! To imported outside bidness.

Notice that we don't have a JavaWerks in the library or a Sakura or Downtown Bagel Bakery in the International Building. Those businesses are already extant in the 'Burg and probably couldn't come up with the cash to grease SFT's palm.

SFT wants to introduce as much competition as possible for the groups that have foiled his plans, and food services is just the start. What's next? Who knows?!?!

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Student's perspective

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USM is not populated with very many latte drinking yuppies. Perhaps some faculty members enjoy that type of $$$ lifestyle, and I have no problem with that. But the students who come here from Louisiana probably enjoy plain old Community coffee brewed at double strength like you get in the LSU coffee shop. Most tudents who hail from Mississippi probably prefer grits to Gazpacho. They'd rather pocket the $200 annual savings to help defray to increase in the cost of textbooks.

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astonished

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In many universities, the auxilliary services (which are a separate accounting fund) bring in more from charging the operating funds of the instructional departments than the cost of the services, and often generate a profit from bookstores and food service.  These monies are then returned to the genral budgets of the universities.  Don't think Barnes and Noble is going to be returning any profits.


Much of this move to privatization was begun under Fleming, and is common in many universities.  Remember the chief financial officer who was hired because her research had been in the benefits of privitizing the auxiliary services?


I, for one, am for focusing on our core competencies - teaching, research and service.



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Cinderella

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this has gone WAY too far, I cannot believe they demolished the Friendship Cafe at gulf park!!!! I remember going to that place with my mom when SHE was a student at USM.....so so sad. And now we have the delightful Eagle's Roost....only $4 for a soggy sandwich...Honestly at those prices I'd rather they put a Subway in the AEC.

You all are making me hungry, lol

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