Persuasive Letter To Principal Essay

Dear Mr. Richard, Mr. Hopey and other executives of the PSU Dining Commons, Imagine, students trudging back to their dorms in the dead of night, dragging their feet with heavy back packs in tow, creating as much distance as possible between them and the Paterno library, the place they had just spent six hours studying for their exam. Visualize a different scenario, Saturday night, students with smiles on their faces returning around 1-2 am to their dorms, hearts still racing from the excitement of the night. However, what is the next chapter of both these stories? It is this: students go on their laptop and make their way to the familiar site of OrderUp, an online food service, and place an order for greasy, unhealthy pizza or something of the like. This has become a tradition for the students here at Penn State, a building component to the infamous freshman 15. However, they eat this unhealthy food for a reason and that is because there are no other alternatives. Students are unable to access healthier options due to the fact all on-campus options are closed. Dining Halls and other smaller eateries on campus all shut their doors at 12 am, making buying any other food besides sauce-drenched chicken wings challenging. My name is …show more content…
If Cornell can stay open until 2 am, then why can’t we? Another example of a school that is benefitting from later hours is our rival school Ohio State. As stated on the Ohio State dining hall informational page, Sloopy’s Diner, a full running restaurant has hours of 8am-3am, allowing even the latest of night owls access to a delicious meal (n.p.). Though this solution would require you to make major changes to the residential dining hall operations, it would be worth it and has clearly has benefitted other schools who have made the