Persuasive Speech - Blake Strickland

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  1. Hello. My name is Blake Strickland, and today we'll be
  2. talking about changes to G.
  3. C. U campus dining and what exactly that means.
  4. So what makes a college great, whether it's student housing,
  5. recreation facilities, programs offered by the college or, of course,
  6. campus dining?
  7. And why should students want to go to G.
  8. C. U based on these specific factors?
  9. But as GC students, what is our job to help
  10. develop and improve these factors for future students that want
  11. to attend G.
  12. C U.
  13. And I think that students need to sign a petition
  14. voting for more variety of healthy and affordable restaurants on
  15. campus to help improve campus dining.
  16. So a more specific explanation of this problem is that
  17. students often complain about food on campus, whether it's variety,
  18. healthy options or the price of food.
  19. But why does quality food service matter?
  20. Or why is it such a problem to college students
  21. or G C students?
  22. And so it cost of healthy foods does influence what
  23. we eat and what we buy in.
  24. A survey performed in a university setting concluded that healthy
  25. items were less available, accessible and promoted, and they also
  26. cost more than healthy options, says Roy.
  27. So basically, that makes college students wanted by more potato
  28. chips or cheese.
  29. It's compared to maybe a banana or an apple just
  30. because it is cheaper.
  31. And so also, lack of food preparation skills in college
  32. students also influences what we eat just because we have
  33. lived with our parents for the majority of our lives.
  34. And they probably also made the majority of our meals
  35. not saying that we haven't made food before.
  36. But it also makes it increasingly difficult to make a
  37. full meal and a college dorm room.
  38. So the Long Bailey talks about lack of food preparation,
  39. knowledge and skills and young adults and how it could
  40. influence eating habits and healthful eating.
  41. So basically, if we don't have the proper things to
  42. make food in our dorm or on campus than that
  43. leads thio Unhealthy habits on DSO food insecurity is also
  44. an increasing issue in college students just because college tuition
  45. is rising and that also includes the cost of food.
  46. So if money is an issue in certain families, then
  47. food might not be provided to their college student attending
  48. a university, and so multiple studies of food insecurity among
  49. college students have found rates from 20% to more than
  50. 50% says Fredinburg.
  51. So it is in fact, an issue and definitely a
  52. developing concern and last but not least, mood in mind,
  53. which is check very important to college students because we
  54. do need to perform our best and so sell hub
  55. talks about how food effects, how you feel, especially your
  56. mood and your your energy levels.
  57. So we do need to be doing well in classes.
  58. If we don't have the proper resource is to do
  59. so with the food, then our grades might suffer.
  60. And so some solutions that I have found maybe some
  61. bad solutions are adding more fast food chains to campus.
  62. So this would, of course, be promoting those more unhealthy
  63. foods over healthier foods because fast food obviously is not
  64. the best for you.
  65. So finding other options that are maybe better would help
  66. in developing the campus as well as offering a different
  67. style of dining.
  68. So maybe an actual dining hall would disrupt the style
  69. of the campus, and what you see was going forward.
  70. So right now, we currently have only restaurants on campus,
  71. and so you would want to keep that to help
  72. make GC you different from other schools, which is a
  73. plus or also lacking.
  74. Creativity and innovations within these new restaurants would also hurt
  75. the school.
  76. And so Skeleton and Evans have found that it is
  77. quite common for colleges to have a lack of healthy
  78. free locations on campus.
  79. Their study results recommend getting rid of this factor to
  80. improve overall campus dining experience.
  81. So with that being said instead, GC should offer good
  82. solutions like dining hall style restaurants, ah, menu with a
  83. variety of foods compared to other restaurants, healthy options and
  84. reasonable prices on, and so the benefit.
  85. The benefits of these solutions include a very various different
  86. things, so students get the opportunity to discover what they
  87. like while it being convenient.
  88. And so the students guide to nutrition talks about the
  89. basics eating healthy and college and how navigating that yourself
  90. is overwhelming while in endurance.
  91. Stunning. So, like I said before, if healthy food options
  92. or a variety of food options were offered in restaurants,
  93. then that would decrease students stress about finding food in
  94. finding what they like on campus.
  95. Also, consumption of healthy foods could increase if prices of
  96. food decreased due.
  97. Charm found that by offering cheaper, more affordable, healthy options,
  98. consumption of those foods could increase more specifically, each 10%
  99. decrease in price boost consumption of nutritious foods by around
  100. 14%. And this opportunity also opens up a new door
  101. for development of campus of the camps environment.
  102. So buildings infrastructure the inside of buildings and is talks
  103. about similar developments at Princeton in 2004, where they discovered
  104. the best quality.
  105. Dining for their students would include a warm, welcoming environment
  106. where chefs could develop quality menus on this ultimately could
  107. make juice you dining stand out while including these other
  108. things as well.
  109. So what makes a college great being different from other
  110. schools, including innovations on campus for students, community outreach for
  111. inclusion, modern looks and ideas as well as so much
  112. more, And this can be featured within food on campus.
  113. So minimizing food waste is definitely something to consider, especially
  114. when students probably end up throwing a lot of food
  115. away or trash away through eating at all these different
  116. restaurants and so typology of university students regarding attitudes towards
  117. food waste discusses how students are educated on food waste,
  118. and I believe that this would be a great opportunity
  119. to teach GC students about food, waste and the effects
  120. on the world.
  121. Another example could also be including locally sourced foods and
  122. menus in these new restaurants.
  123. So I know that on campus we do have a
  124. garden that a student run in Southern restaurants could include.
  125. Items from this garden in there, many one in their
  126. foods. But Seeley Morris speaks about how the best dining
  127. halls reach out to the surrounding community for fresh produce.
  128. Some folks on waste production or others donate unused food
  129. to local charities, which I believe is also another great
  130. benefit that use.
  131. You could look into help developing campus dining.
  132. So overall, I believe that students should sign the petition
  133. to get a variety of healthy and affordable foods on
  134. juicy campus to help better our school.
  135. Thank you guys for listening.
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