MGMT on Conan

MGMT played Time to Pretend on Late Night with Conan O'Brien this past Thursday night.



Long advertisement delay (20-30 seconds) before the video actually starts, but it is cued up to the relevant segment of the show.

Opossum on the Loose

So while making a detour through Exley late last night, I was greeted by this specimen of a certain North American marsupial:
The opossum nonchalantly stepped through a door left ajar and made a beeline for ST Lab, where it gained the attention of all five people in there late on a Friday night while it crawled under tables and sniffed around curiously. Finding nothing, it walked back out and headed toward the elevators - by which point everyone with a cell phone camera was following closely and trying to corner it at risk of getting rabies or something.

A small crowd had assembled by now and was growing kind of attached to it, but eventually a P-Safe officer showed up and led it back outside to wander the rainy night:

Wendy, Late Night, Bon Appetit

Apparently making a points spreadsheet gives me a ticket to join the Wesleying staff. Anyways, let's get to it.

I just got word from one of the women working at late night that Wendy, of Summerfields fame, lost her position as cashier at Usdan today.

This doesn't mean she's been fired, just that someone else with more seniority wanted her job, and bumped her. Technically, this is all following union rules about seniority, and how jobs are assigned, but it seems like things are generally going pretty shitty for Wesleyan dining workers these days. I don't know if Wendy's going to get another cashier job, or what's going to happen, but let's raise some hell! Call people! Email people! Email Michael Roth! Tell them that what Bon Appetit is doing is really shitty, and we're not going to stand for it!

List of (my) complaints (so far):

• Lines.
• Traffic Flow. (this one's not totally BA's fault, because they didn't design the building, but it's still godawful)
• Limited drink options. (they claim that they're in the process of getting newer and better machines)
• Late night. This one gets a whole section.
• There are about half as many options as at Summerfields. Fries and Sweet Potato Fries are the only vegetarian options.
  
• There's no place to sit down while you wait for your order, because if you go into the main seating area, the doors close behind you and you can't hear your order.
• There's no way to re-enter to get refills on your drink or forgotten condiments or anything
• There's no menu. Seriously, guys.
• It's sort of ridiculous that you have to bring your order directly to the cook, although they claim that they're going to get a printer for the kitchen like they had at Summerfields, so that you don't have to do this anymore.

EDIT: additions to the list

• Ice cream machines: they really should be with the desserts, not in the already over-crowded drink area. I mentioned this to one of the managers, and he said that they couldn't move it because it required a high-amp electrical plug and a water line. Granted, these are not trivial things to move, but the building's still under construction, I imagine that it wouldn't be impossible to do.
• Drinks: Why do they have the cups arranged so that you have to walk past the drinks, get a cup, turn around, get your drink, and turn around again to leave?
  

The same woman I talked to about Wendy (she used to wear a hat with a fan on it at Summerfields late night) said that we should all write comment cards urging them to move late night back to Summerfields. The comment card boards are across the hall from the lunchtime cash registers.

People to complain to:

dining_comments@wesleyan.edu

Delmar Crim
Resident District Manager for Bon Appetit
860-685-3060
delmar.crim@cafebonappetit.com

Dean Rick Culliton
Dean of Campus Programs/

University Center Director

860-685-2627
rculliton@wesleyan.edu

Dean Mike Whaley
Dean of Student Services

Interim Dean of the College
860-685-3160
mwhaley@wesleyan.edu