Are UCU Students Above Stealing Each Other’s Lunch Money? (Continued)

Sofia Banzhoff

Another way to make sure nobody is stealing our lunch money is by checking the receipt we get after every DH purchase, which shows the old and the new balance.

“The students should keep track of their balance anyway, since the €750 have to last un- fied of the necessity of closely checking their balance, not all of them take their receipts. How can this ‘checks and balances’ system truly work when we are not even aware that we are a part of it?

Safety comes at a price

A system as simple and thus as easy to bypass as the current one was chosen to keep the costs down. “At the end of the day, if you introduce a more complicated system, the students will pay,” Nelemans says.

Nelemans has suggested Sodexo print their logo on the cards, perhaps behind the barcode. But there are no plans for further security measures, such as the UCSA Board’s suggestion to link the accounts to our XS-cards. “We still strongly believe that a more secure system should be implemented,” says UCSA Secretary Valeria Boers.

Security above transparency?

But why didn’t we hear about this before?

“In line with the principle of responsibility, we did not think it was a good idea to inform the students,” says Boers. The UCSA Board thought that this would have only provided formed about certain issues. “We haven’t been faced with many situations like this.”

Generally, College Hall favors informing students. “We try to be as transparent as we can,” Nelemans says. “We do think that we have a feel for what’s going on on campus.” til the end of the semester,” Nelemans says. But it is not easy to notice a €5 “irregularity”. Also, since students have never been officially noti- incentive to falsify the cards, “with no added benefit for students.”

So we have to ask ourselves whether this is enough or whether we want to pay more for a safer system, and our peace of mind.

Both Nelemans and Boers believe that they made the right call in not informing the students. This whole issue seems to be another trade-off between transparency and security.

According to Boers, there is no official policy on when the student body needs to be in-