Why I've got to eat somewhere else
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The U has been less than friendly in the morning.
I stop by Middlebrook Hall's cafeteria, thinking I'd slap down a few bucks to eat with the students.
Yeah, right. No walk-ins here.
The woman at the information desk explains that you have to be part of a meal plan to eat there -- or be the guest of a student.
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What's this?
Back in my University of Georgia days, you could just pay cash if you weren't on the plan.
Whether it's security or payment issues or whatever -- it ain't right, I say.
Man, things have changed.