BY ELENA CHOPYAK and KAITLIN KYI

In print | November 15, 2007

In response to student suggestions, Student Council has been working in conjunction with Dining Services to extend coffee bar hours. As a trial, Kohlberg Coffee Bar was open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. this past Saturday, and will be open again at the same time this coming Saturday.

Student Council decided to pursue the possibility of longer hours at the coffee bar when they received numerous requests for the change while tabling at Sharples.

Cash Operations Manager Gusti Ruhri said that students approached the director of Dining Services with a request for extended coffee bar hours as well.

“We talked to [Dining Services director] Linda McDougall and Dining Services. They had tried [extending hours] in the past and it wasn’t successful,” Student Council President Peter Gardner ’08 said.

In response, “said we would do a dry-run,” Ruhri said. In order to justify opening the coffee bar for additional hours in the long-term, there is a minimum revenue target of $300 which must be met. Ruhri said that the minimum was met this past Saturday, but pointed out that there were a significant number of additional visitors on campus that day.

According to Ruhri, students have to show that they will utilize the extended hours for Dining Services to approve the change. “If it looks good, we’ll do it,” Ruhri said, noting that she may either have to hire and train an additional worker or find an existing employee who is willing and able to work on Saturdays. “Dining Services are very flexible, very willing to do something as long as it’s manageable,” Ruhri said.

“It has to be self-sustained,” Gardner agreed. If extended hours on Saturday are consistently successful, Student Council would be willing to open discussion on extending hours on Sunday.

Simone Fried ‘10 thinks the extended hours are a good idea. "It’s really hard to get a hold of sustenance on the weekends," Fried said. Fried, who did not use the coffee bar last Saturday, said that she would take advantage of it in the future. Fried also said that she would not bother to trek all the way to Dunkin’ Donuts for coffee. “It’s a long way to go for coffee,” she said.

Gardner encourages students to attend the trial extended hours of Kohlberg on Saturday.

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