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Ongoing Food Shortage at the Campus Cupboard Shelves
ANNELIA NIXON
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According to the University of Central Missouri’s Director of Student Activities
Beth Rutt, UCM’s Campus Cupboard has been in a food shortage for the last six months. Rutt said she is concerned about the lack of food availability, inflation and the effect it has on students, as these factors can determine how a student performs in class.
“Food insecurity on college campuses is real,” Rutt said. “People know what it’s like to be hungry and we don’t want that to be an issue for our students.”
Rutt said the shortage has not been a surprise because she obtained a letter in Nov. 2022 from Harvesters Community Food Network.
“With Harvesters, I would go online and you would order the commodities that you want,” Rutt said. “So, normally you’d have 16 to 17 pages with like 30 items on each page that you can choose from, and just last month when I ordered, there were only four pages.”
