Star Letters: Costly campus
Having used the college bars for the first time this year, I was disgusted to see that the prices of drinks have gone up again! I thought the university bars were supposed to be cheap? I remember when a double-vodka red bull was only 2.50, a bargain!
Surely with bars having to close because they ran at a loss on certain days, the University administration should be trying their best to encourage the current freshers to use the campus facilities by reasonable prices and good, student friendly bar deals.
All it seems like they’re doing is trying to capitalise on the changes in the kitchen facilities in many colleges that drive students to the bars and cafeterias to buy food, when in fact this will fail as many more students will head into cheaper bars in Heslington and in town.
In my day students were already shunning campus bars in favour of better drinks promotions in the Charles, or even in the dark smokey Deramore; the flow of students away from campus will surely become a spiralling flood. This really the way to encourage them to spend their evenings, and their money, on campus?
Pete Kennaugh
Third Year Computer Science Student
