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Council Opposes Removal
Of Food Service Supervisors

By TOM TANTON

Student Council
unanimously passed a motion
opposing "the removal or
elimination" of student
supervisors in Food Services
after a fiery attack on
that department by fourth-year
student manager Tom Scalea
at last night's Council meeting.

In his presentation to
Council, Mr. Scales said that
Food Services must retain
student supervisors "if there
are going to be student workers
or else the students are dead."

Mr. Scalea said that Food
Services said that student
supervisors would not be
needed because of "full-time
personnel in key roles" which
would cause a "duplication of
service."

Student Council's Food
Services Committee Chairman
Taylor Putney said "if they are
going to have student managers
next year, I would think that
they would know by now who
they are going to be and who
would be training them."

'Going To Stall'

"It's obvious that they are
going to stall until the end of
the year, then everybody will
go away and that will be it,"
Mr. Scalea claimed.

Food Services has
announced that a new manager
of the cafeteria has been hired
for this coming fall and
according to President-elect
Larry Sabato "Mr. Kinnier
(Civil Engineering professor
and chairman of the Food
Service Advisory Committee)
has said that this may well
be a big improvement" over
the present managers.

However, according to Mr.
Scalea, "this thing about
someone being planned for all
year" is untrue "unless they
were lying in the first place."

"It's tough to tell when
Miss Slipp (co-manager of the
cafeterias) is lying because she
does it so often," he added.

Grievance System

Another major complaint
of student employees is,
according to Mr. Scalea, the
lack of some type of grievance
system. Food Services has
"stepped on any kind of
dissent by students," claimed
Mr. Scalea, and it would not
like to see any kind of
organization of the students.

Without student managers
the situation would be "If you
give them a lot of trouble, they
fire you; if you don't give them
a lot of trouble, you get
against the wall...and finally
quit," Mr. Scalea insisted.

"The students must have a
say in the Food Service
hierarchy if the students are
going to have a fair shake," he
added.

College representative Greg
Luce then recommended a
union type of organization for
Food Service employees that
would be "a loose association
of representatives" of
individuals. When told that such
an organization is outlawed in
Virginia, Mr. Luce said "Things
that are outlawed and things
that are right are not always
the same thing."

Call Meeting

In addition, Mr. Sabato
announced that Mr. Putney
and himself will meet with
Director of Food Services
Bernard C. Fontana to discuss
the creation of a contract for
those students who wish to
buy a meal ticket. The
contract, according to Mr.
Sabato, would tell the students
exactly what they are getting.

"This would prevent things
like radical changes of the
menu in the middle of the
year," Mr. Sabato added.

A recommendation to
establish a contract between
Food Services and meal ticket
purchasers, detailing what
services will be provided next
year, headed the list proposals
discussed Tuesday by the Food
Services Committee.