Push the University

Push the University -Essay 2  

             The food is the first and the most important need of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, especially when it comes to the young people and college students. Texas Tech University is characterized by different aspects. For example, the  diversities in different aspects, local and international students, different student services, very attractive landscape, and very high organization of the distribution of the faculties. Moreover, having the diversity and good quality of the food service in the university is good evidence that the management of the university is caring much about the students and delivering a good service that helps them in their learning process.  However, the high prices of the food services are very challenging to the students. Most of the restaurants in the university have unreasonable prices for the food or the drinks as well, because, as we know, the students have a tight budget, and they have other high expenses. Moreover, the food is a basic requirement for all people in general and the students specifically. Students spend most of their time in the university either taking classes or studying with their friends. Therefore, the food services should be reasonable and accessible for the most of the students. Stressing logical solutions, we can propose two solutions. The first is to open the space for new restaurants, and the second food truck solution.  

              The first  is open the space for new restaurants and have new regulations for the new restaurants to have good prices, which will make the other restaurants decrease their prices, because it will be  a chance for competition among the new restaurants and the old one. Unfortunately, this solution requires more space for these restaurants, or having food trucks in the university.  

          They would Allow food truck owners to get inside the university, which would be the cheapest option in Lubbock, and organize this chance within a regulations and certain times; for example, 3 days per week, this solution is very practical and useful for students. Moreover it is cool idea that students can know more about food trucks culturally, because the food truck has a cultural dimension here in Lubbock.  This means, in this solution, you stress on two dimensions; the first one is the food pricing. The second is the cultural dimension, which is that you can identify some cultural aspect in an indirect way.  

          To conclude, students, organizations in the university, and student unions should stress these issues that affect students’ lives in the university. Having new restaurants makes a positive competition that affects student interest positively.  Food trucks are one of the best solutions that help students to decrease their daily expenses for food and drinks. I believe that the student organizations should build communication channels for sharing the students’ challenges with their university life. (Yousef)