Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 2, 1995 TAG: 9509050066
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE LENGTH: Short
Stung by a bad review of cafeteria food at the University of Virginia, a food service official hid 4,000 copies of the student newspaper to keep the criticism from his eating public.
John Darmstadt, a resident district manager for ARAMARK, hid the copies of the school newspaper early last Saturday. He returned them later in the day after editors of the Cavalier Daily asked him where they were.
The free papers had been delivered to a campus dining hall where parents and freshmen were scheduled to gather for the students' first day on campus. A total of 6,000 papers were printed.
The scathing story about the food service was headlined ``Beware of inedible horrors lurking in University's dining halls." Student John Flowers wrote that he detested the food served by ARAMARK.
``This culinary comedy of errors will serve as the butt of many jokes between you and your cohorts for years to come,'' Flowers wrote.
Michael H. Sampson, the newspaper's editor in chief, said hiding the papers was a ``classic case of censorship.''
Darmstadt apologized to the newspaper and said he regretted the theft. The company's food is ``very, very good,'' he said. ``That's one of the reasons I went through the wall. We work very hard to make it that way.''
by CNB