Duke Dining mirrors Obama Administration

I was disappointed to discover today that Duke Dining has forbidden Jimmy John’s from accepting food points before 7 p.m. in an attempt to provide a school-aided crutch for on-campus dining. Nonetheless, I still ordered a Vito sandwich on my own dime and paid with another failing currency.

This marks the continuation of a disturbing policy wherein Duke Dining systematically destroys the concept of free-market capitalism in order to support their failing on-campus institutions. By raising fees on dining and hitting off-campus competitors with regulations that (to quote Steve Wynn) are a “wet blanket to business,” Duke Dining seems to be taking a page from our similarly anti-capitalism, pro-bailout commander-in-chief.

Duke Dining is hardly different from the failing car companies and toxic-asset-plagued financial institutions that Barack Obama threw a rescue line to in 2008. From the unionized employees to the overvalued “assets,” on-campus dining is the mirror image of the poorly managed “too big to fail” corporations that were rehabilitated with taxpayer dollars. I look forward to the day when free-market enterprise can reign at Duke and Obama has finished his imitation of Soviet Russia.

Benjamin Brostoff

Trinity ’12