Breakfast at Nine

"You don't give bait to caught fish." Undergraduates--all of whom must pay the University for beard--often find nine o'clock too early to get up for breakfast. Their extra time in bed does not cost the University a cent. The University, indeed, is paid for food it never had to buy.

Things are different over at the new Graduate Commons. There the University must compete with the local restaurants since a great many students buy single meals with coupons in the commons. Students who like to sleep until near their ten o'clock class will not willingly pay for an 8:59 breakfast, so the administration gave up without a struggle and let the graduate dining hall serve breakfast until 9:30.

Graduate dining hall employees say that the extra half-hour does not keep them from serving lunch on time. At the College, officials have long been saying that the nine o'clock deadline was essential for cleaning up the dining halls before lunch.

At present this "laissez-faire" College is taxing those who want to get a little more sleep. Undergraduates lead as strenuous lives as graduate students; let them all sleep equally late.