Beginning this fall, all students living on campus will participate in the College's meal plan.
The decision to include all resident students will primarily affect about 370 students who live in the fourteen fraternities and sororities that have private meal plans.
In a letter to the campus community, President Roger Hull explained that the College's Planning and Priorities Committee had identified three key priorities-to continue to meet students' financial aid needs, to maintain academic and non-academic programs, and to continue to maintain the College's facilities.
Given the importance of these objectives, and faced with such financial pressures as federal and state budget cuts in higher education programs and the failure of the Schenectady City Council to give Union the use of its Lenox Road properties, the College can no longer justify exempting fraternity and sorority members from the requirements that all other resident students must meet, the letter said.
The meal plan offers three options with costs that ranged from $2,586 to $2,907 in 1994-95.