The Student Union Building is a dwelling place for many students on campus, but now many of those students have to find a new place to eat on the weekends.
Starting this semester, the SUB has changed their hours to 7 a.m.-2 p.m. on Friday and is closed on Saturdays.
Just last year, the SUB extended their closing hours to 2 a.m. throughout the week and weekend days.
Robert Hoag, manager of the SUB outlets, said that customers have increased during the weekdays but the opposite is happening on the weekends.
“The number of students who come in weekends are very less compared to weekdays so we cannot afford to run the outlets in these days,” said Hoag. “The sales are just quarter of the sales we have in weekdays.”
Lindsay Hunter, an education major, is a regular at the Subway in the SUB and believes that closing on the weekends is an inconvenience for students who have to stay on campus during that time.
“One has to go to other outlets, which aren’t that near which gives a lot of trouble,” said Hunter.
Pratik Giri, an undeclared major, said that now when he studies at the library on the weekends, he has to go to off campus outlets, such as Taco Bell and KFC to eat and spend his money.
But Abhash Subedi, a freshman computer science major, doesn’t have a problem with the change in hours.
“…I live in the dorms and the Schulze cafeteria is always there,” said Subedi.
According to Hoag, they do not plan on opening back up on the weekends anytime soon.
John • Oct 2, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Glad I don’t go to ULM anymore, it sucks to live on campus and not have local places to eat.