As many students have recently found out, the dining halls on SUNY Geneseo's campus do not have adequate options for student meals and students are paying more money to acquire less food and less options. Students with dietary restrictions are being told by the Geneseo Campus Auxiliary Services, the not-for-profit company dedicated to serving the SUNY Geneseo students, that they first need to prove that they can't eat anything at the dining halls before the school will change anything about the food being provided. That is completely unacceptable of the school. 

The school also decided to change student meal plans from how they operated in past years. In the past, many students payed roughly $1,400 for a meal plan for an entire semester consisting of over $1,000 to spend at any dining facility on campus including Starbucks and grab and go meals. Students also received $300 in flex dollars to be used for vending machines all throughout campus. Students now pay a range from $2,450 to $2,950 to receive a substantial amount less. This allows for students to get "free meals" and either $250, $500, or $750 in retail dollars depending on the selected meal plan. These retail dollars are only allowed to be used at non-dining hall facilities and vending machines but the price gouging that occurs on campus will not leave students with enough retail dollars to last the whole semester. Letchworth dining hall, SUNY Geneseo's most popular dining hall, is currently closed due to staffing issues. MJ dining hall has so far consistently only offered roughly four options for meals each meal time throughout the day, a significant decrease from the almost 50 options from the year prior. And although RJ dining hall has more options for food, they are running out of most options hours before they close due to almost all of the student body having to eat there. 

Resolutions to these issues include but aren't limited to, changing the meal plans back to how they used to be, making sure that all options listed online on menus for dining halls are actually being served to students, the school could attempt to obtain contracts with nearby restaurants for our meal plans to work at other locations, students could be given a refund for the lack of food being provided, allow students to opt out of the meal plan, etc...