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Wednesday, September 25. 1974
University Dally Kansan
Students' lifestyles affect food costs
University of Kansas students are
deployed, depending,
in part, on where they live.
Residence halls provide meals for an average of $1.20 a day per student.
Fraternities and sororites usually spend more a day, averaging $1.75 a person.
Some students living off campus pay more for food than the fraternities or sororites. However, this depends on where they live and home or in a restaurant, and what they eat.
The figure for the residence halls only includes the costs, said J. J. Wilson, president of the university.
"This figure is based on an over-all average of costs for 240 days. But there is more than just the food. This does not include labor, equipment or utilities.
"We have to stay under this budget. If we go over, we can't pay our bills. But, obviously, some meals will cost more than others, Wilson said.
The residence halls have a dietician who plans the meals, trying to provide a balanced diet and keep the prices down as well.
"We try to provide the food for a balanced diet," saidLenoir Ekdahl, director of food services, "but we can't be sure everyone eats what they should."
Ekdahi said citrus drink and fruit were provided at every meal, as well as meat for
"Peanut butter is always available, and we have cottage cheese at many meals since they're good for added protein," Ekdahl said.
The residence halls provide soup and sandwiches or a casserole at the noon meal. Two types of meat, two types of vegetables, and dessert are available for dinner, Eckahl said.
"If you bought all this off a grocery shelf," Ekkah said, "the noon meal would cost at least $2. Our dinners would probably be $2.50 on an average. It varies," she said.
Wilson said the residence halls could keep the prices down on meals because of the discount in prices they received for buying a large volume of food.
"I know they have to charge a lot more at the Union," Wilson said.
Fraternities and sororites also are able to hold down prices by buying in large numbers.
One group of fraternities has formed a cooperative company to buy food in volume. The company, Greek Management, Inc., includes Acacia, Alpha Kappa Lambda, Sigma, Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Fai, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Triangle fraternities.
"We definitely are saving money, according to the housemother," said Molly Thompson, who works at Greek Management, Inc. "We had some troubles
getting started, but things have gotten much better."
Greek Management, Inc., 1400 Louisiana St. is, both an office and a warehouse. Paper goods, potato chips, canned goods and household supplies are kept in the warehouse and are delivered to the kitchen. Fresh vegetables and fresh produce and meat are bought on a wholesale basis from area wholesalers. Deliveries are made by the dealers.
Many of the fraternities' and sororites' costs vary because of the number of people involved.
Inflation is hurting the houses' attempts to hold down costs.
"We're trying to stay within $1.50 per day, per person," said Hazel Holder, housemother at the Triangle fraternity. "I don't think we're going to make it."
Marion Harris, housemother at the Chi Omega sorority, said prices were changing
"I think it's around $2.50 per day (per person)," she said.
Many KU students think they pay less for internships, sororities and residence halls.
so fast that an accurate figure was hard to establish.
"We pay about $1.15 per person for each of us," said Dan Schulte, Wichita senior.
Dale Gearhart, Four Worth, Texas,
sophomore, said he spent $1.50 a day,
because he ate very little breakfast or
lunch.
Mike Whtight, brighter senior, said that he and his roommates spent about $2 to $2.50
"We eat a big dinner together," said Whitright.
Sherrie Baton, Leawood sophomore, said she and her roommates spent between 830 and 1000 calories.
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