DDS is not green
By Vicki Allen
Published on Tuesday, May 30, 2006
To the Editor:
One point that I have not seen made regarding the new Dartmouth Dining Services plans is how "un-green" they are ("DDS announces final meal plan changes," May 24). It's as if DDS/Dartmouth is saying "Hi, instead of allowing students to purchase larger milk containers that can be reduced and reused, we will instead encourage students to buy 80 million of those little paper milk cartons from the dining halls (since they'll have to spend more of their money in the dining halls) -- oh, and by the way, we've made it really hard for students to compost those cartons in the past few years." To me, this is just another example of how Dartmouth is struggling to commit (in all aspects of college life) to a true vision of environmentally friendly/sustainable/good practices (whatever current environmental "buzz" word you want to use).
Well, perhaps now that DDS realizes that students will just buy smaller-packaged quantities of things they get at Topside (but buy it elsewhere), they'll finally get those Cows (the milk-dispensers) in the dining hall that student environmental groups have been requesting for years. I'm just glad I don't have to worry about this next year.