As students from Banning and Draper halls awoke for early Friday morning classes on Sept. 6, they were greeted with free food in their lobbies.
For the second year in a row, Devin Murphy, resident director for Banning and Draper halls, decided to host a monthly free breakfast for the students living in each building.
“I did it last year because a student requested having a group breakfast sometimes, and I was like, ‘yeah sure why not?’ and it actually was a really good event,” Murphy said. “Last year it was treated more like a community event where people sat down and had breakfast together. This year, probably because it was the first one, it was more of a grab and go, but I received positive feedback from the students again this year, so why not continue it?”
Stella Seagraves, cell and molecular biology freshman and resident of Banning Hall, said she is excited about this monthly event.
“I think it is very nice of Devin for her to be doing this and helps create a community connection for students,” Seagraves said.
Though the event is hosted in only Banning and Draper, students from outside of those two buildings are welcome to attend the breakfast with friends who live in the building, Murphy said.
“So really, you have to be able to have access to the halls to get in so that’s kind of a little bit of a deterrent,” Murphy said. “Some people have brought their friends, and I don’t care. I’m not going to kick anyone out if they don’t live here; they can participate. But typically you will need to know someone who lives here to have access to the building.”
Murphy said she plans to diversify the types of food served at each breakfast and hopes to find ways to accommodate alternate diets at some of the breakfasts.
“This time it was vegetarian breakfast burritos and vegan donuts, so that was also a little bit of a learning area,” Murphy said. “I wanted to try and show that students can have a good meal without meat. However, we ran out of food ,and so halfway through I went and got breakfast burritos from Braum’s, and those did have sausage in them, so we kind of stuck with the burrito theme.”
Seagraves said she hopes to find one of her favorite breakfast foods at a free breakfast Friday sometime throughout the year.
“I would like to have waffles present at the breakfast at some point,” Seagraves said.
Murphy said she encourages students to come to future breakfasts.
“I hope people really enjoy it,” Murphy said. “I bought enough food for 60 people and 60 people came, so I think it was well attended.”
Leave a Reply