Vive La Quill

By the time this goes to print, Forbidden Flavours will be open where Java Jive used to sit. While I’m sure I will rejoice with gladness that day - until then - I will be stuck in my office making coffee.

There is coffee in the Cafeteria you might suggest. Some might even say; “Its Starbucks now.” My reply? BUNK.

First, it doesn’t taste like Starbucks, and the Cafeteria will never serve me like Starbucks does. At the Caf, it’s every man/woman/student for themselves, and the price...well you’re still paying for all that Starbucks service with none of the benefits.

Coffee is important, it is vital to my life as a student, and vital to many others on this campus. Money? Also vital, and I simply cannot justify paying $2.41 for a large coffee that I essentially make myself, and is likely old and stale.

Note: I have looked at the timers, they are often set at over an hour when I see them. Not tastey, not fresh, and not worth $2.41 for a paper cup, or $1.91 if I have my own cup.

I know I’m not forced to drink it, however, nothing else really keeps me going or gets me started like coffee and yes that brings up the larger issue of caffeine addiction, but I digress. There is a larger issue here at stake. Actually, there are a few.

One: If you live in residence, you might not mind the over inflated prices so much since you will in all likely-hood not use up your ‘force-fed’ food card by the end of the term = BU money grab.

Two: Lack of options on campus. I plan to faithfully buy Forbidden coffee from now until the time I graduate, because it is a better, fresher product, and someone will SERVE it to me for less than the cafeteria forces me to serve myself.

Three: Is there a reason SUDS couldn’t have served coffee? One rumour suggests that the coffee maker they had was broken. Another, more likely in my opinion, secretly whispers that perhaps the SUDS board couldn’t decide quick enough to implement coffee for the fall, and by the time they decided that they wanted to serve coffee at SUDS, Forbidden was opening was too soon to make it worthwhile.

Lets not even talk about the overlap of board members between the numerous boards and Collectives on campus. Not worth my time at 6:35am, but good coffee sure would be.

That cup to the left, that signifies how simple it is to make coffee, and how simple it would have been to serve decent, fresh, reasonably priced coffee in SUDS in September. The benefits to SUDS might have been good too, it might have created more of lounge atmosphere during the day, while retaining its student pub life after dark. Who knows? All that is important right now is coffee.