Miss-a-Meal: Chartwells, UA students help fund Alternative Spring Break
Bailey McBride
Issue date: 3/6/09 Section: News
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Many students may have heard this question as they entered the Northwest Quad or the dining areas at Pomfret Honors Quarters and Brough Commons recently, but not known what it meant.
Miss-a-Meal is an annual program at the UA that is sponsored by Chartwells and helps to fund a large portion of the Alternative Spring Break trips coordinated by the Volunteer Action Center on campus.
Essentially, students sign up to miss a meal at a designated lunch or dinner period, and instead of being able to dine in one of the three on-campus cafeterias, the students must find an alternative way to eat.
The assigned meals to be missed were at lunch and dinner Tuesday, March 3, through yesterday. A student could sign up to miss one meal a day, but could still eat at Late Night at the Arkansas Union or at The Hill Grill in Maple Hill South if they chose.
For every meal that was missed, Chartwells donated $2, or the cost of food, to the Alternative Spring Break program.
Students who volunteered to miss a meal were given a slip of paper reminding them of the date they had obligated themselves to skip. They were also e-mailed prior to the day of their missed meal.
All students participating in an Alternative Spring Break trip were required to volunteer for at least one shift at the tables in the cafeterias.
Sophomore Safari Moore has participated both in the Miss-a-Meal and Alternative Spring Break programs both years she has attended the UA.
"These freshmen might not know what it is, but upperclassmen should know what Miss-a-Meal is when we ask them if they want to participate," said Moore, who worked at the tables in Brough and Pomfret this year.
"It is a program that has been around for a while, and it really helps us get the funding we need to be able to go on these trips," Moore said.
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