By Signe K. Skinion

University Housing officials are considering a program for next year that will allow refunds for students who do not eat every meal on their cafeteria meal ticket.

Edward L. Jones, director of University Housing, said the refundable meal program is being investigated for viability and for student reaction.

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The program will allow a student to receive a portion of the total food cost back from every meal throughout the semester they didn’t eat, Jones said.

Because a lot of students do not eat all of what they are paying for, the refund from those unused meals would go to their Bursar account at the end of the semester, Jones said. Students will either eat all of their 12 meals, or they will get some money back.

Mary M. Morgan, assistant director of Residence Hall Dining, said this is one of the best programs Housing has looked into for the students’ best interests.

Students can receive $1.71 back everytime they don’t eat on this program, Morgan said. I’m glad we’re able to offer this option for next year along with the carry-out meals and the unlimited trips to the cafeterias we implemented this year. We’re really trying to give students what they want.

Jones said this is a complicated program, but the work is going very well, and he hopes to have this program implemented for Fall 1996.

We’ve pursued this idea for a few weeks, and it’s working. It’s way off the boards into reality, Jones said. This program is a little more complicated than the Neely conversion, but I am hoping that by next year it will be an option for the students.