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monday Issue january 31, 2011

FRESNO STATE COLLEGIAN.CSUFRESNO.EDU SERVING CAMPUS SINCE 1922 Students wary of Five Dollar Fridays boost scam job sales for opportunities University Dining Hall

Matt Weir / Collegian File Photo Many choices available at the University Dining Hall are grown at Fresno State.

By Dana Hull Before homecoming week, The Collegian a lot of people simply didn’t know about the Friday deal. Fresno State’s University “I thought everybody Dining Hall has been serving knew,” she said, “and I learned up $5 Fridays for more than that clearly everybody didn’t four years now. Despite the know.” apparent value they offer on Guill said that other rea- Fridays, it’s still their slowest sons students and staff don’t day of the week. want to visit the dining hall UDH senior manager is because of location and Debbie Guill says people perception. The dining hall is weren’t aware of it until this on one end of campus, and to year. some students and staff it can “It got more popular when be an inconvenience to make the centennial celebration the trip down to the dining happened in October and we hall. really promoted it,” she said. “I have the challenge of “It’s been very successful and changing the perception of we’ve gotten a lot of positive what goes along with dining feedback about it.” hall food,” she said. “Every According to Guill, approxi- year I have 1,200 new students mately 300 students and staff walking up that ramp going Matt Weir/ The Collegian visit the dining hall during ‘This is going to be gross Students question the validity of work opportunity flyers posted and passed out around campus. breakfast, 600 visit during because it’s dining hall food.’” lunch and 700 visit during din- But UDH doesn’t serve By Leonard Valerio director of career services at “Some of them sounded ner on weekdays. However, on up mystery meat and flimsy The Collegian Fresno State, said that ever too good to be true,” she said, Friday business slows down. mashed potatoes that many since the economy experi- “but as a struggling student “Unlike the outside world experience with a high school As semesters come and go, enced a downturn there has I still wanted to check them where typically Friday and cafeteria. In fact, the dining some things always seem to been an increase in job post- out because some employers Saturday in the restaurant hall menu changes daily, and stay the same — long lines in ings that are certainly ques- aren’t very flexible with stu- business is very busy — here they have an executive chef the bookstore, lack of parking, tionable. dent schedules, especially if it is the opposite,” she said. and sous chef, along with shortage of classes and, more “Students may not have a they already have a job.” “Students are going home many cooks. Entrees and recently, false job postings. lot of experience as employ- Williamson said that sev- or they’re going out to eat meals are cooked everyday On campus billboards and ees, and many have limited eral of the postings asked for because it’s Friday.” from fresh ingredients. A lot all through the free speech exposure to the work world start-up fees that would be Guill said that during the of ingredients they use are area there are numerous job and the rules and regulations reimbursed once work was centennial celebration on grown right on the Fresno postings advertising student regarding pay and the labor completed. Homecoming week last fall, State campus. work, often with high pay and laws that exist out there,” she “I had a bad feeling when she saw a huge spike in sales In other words, processed the flexibility of working from said. “In some ways students some of the companies that Friday with approximate- food is