UC Irvine's Food Pantry for Starving College Students

Celine Qussiny, left, a UC Irvine graduate, Mohammed Bensufia, middle, a third-year social policy major, and Nef Rogers, right, a fifth-year computer science major, eat Vietnamese spring rolls as UC Irvine opens a new food pantry for students. (LA Times)


Today's LA Times is running a  story on the opening of a new food pantry for hungry students at UC Irvine, which claims that thousands of UCI's students are going hungry everyday.


http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-uc-irvine-food-pantry-20170927-story.html

"The campus’ basic needs coordinator, Andrea Gutierrez, who will oversee the food pantry, said nearly 44% of UC Irvine students lack consistent access to nutritious food."

“Oh, potatoes! I can make curly fries!” 

(That's the spirit.)


-LA Times

Maybe you are wondering like I am how so many college students attending the University of California, one of the most prestigious schools in the nation, can be going hungry at the same time.


-LA Times


By the way, the top photo shows Celine Qussiny, listed as a UCI graduate, on the left. I guess graduates are also eligible. Coincidentally, Ms. Qussiny was a major participant last May 10 when the Students for Justice in Palestine  disrupted a pro-Israeli event on campus. The next day, she spoke at an anti-Israel rally, bragged about the previous evening's disruption and the previous year's disruption of another pro-Israeli event while trashing university president Howard  Gillman, whom she referred to derisively as "Howie Gillman".

No hard feelings, I guess.

Of course, we now know that SJP received  the draconian punishment of two years probation for this year's disruption after getting a warning letter for last year's disruption. We don't know what if any individual punishments were handed out since that is covered under state privacy laws.

But there were apparently no hard feelings on the university's part.