The Starbucks Kiosk in Reamer Campus Center is being relocated to the new Wold Building upon its opening this academic year. According to Director of Dining Services Dan Detora, the kiosk will be moved because, in its current location, it attracts a large crowd of students at several points in the day. This creates a potentially unsafe environment in the middle of the campus center.
The highly-visited Starbucks Kiosk will be moved from its current location in the Reamer Campus Center (left) to the first floor of the new Wold Science Building (right) upon completion in the Spring of 2011.
Detora also thinks that the move will attract more students to the new building, particularly important for those who are not studying the sciences. The decision to move the kiosk was a joint choice made by Dining Services and the student-run Dining Services Committee.
The Starbucks Kiosk mainly serves coffee and tea beverages, but it also has a variety of pastries and food. Therefore, it is commonly used for breakfast or between-class snacks. The fact that the kiosk is so widely used has spurred varying opinions among the student body regarding the move.
Some students think the move will be beneficial, while others find it to be unnecessary.
“Moving the Starbucks Kiosk is a bad idea; no one will be able to get good coffee and such in the morning. It’s going to be such a hassle to walk all the way to the Wold building,” Kim Blecich ‘13 said. She also believes that moving the kiosk will do nothing to prevent crowding in Reamer, asserting that the traffic from the kiosk will be moved to Wold.
Maddie Vale ‘13 agrees. “It’s kind of annoying because I like being able to get food in the same place, and if I’m running from class to class it’s inconvenient and time consuming,” Vale said.
Other students disagree about the traffic and believe moving Starbucks will be beneficial to the crowding that occurs in the hallway. “It’s nice to have the kiosk in Reamer next to everything, but it’ll be good to move it to Wold because Reamer is so packed,” Zak Smolen ‘13 said.
The space in Reamer will be turned into an area devoted to student activities. “It’s good because a lot of students don’t go the fourth floor and check out Student Activities, so it’ll allow them to see school events,” Isaiah Buchanan ‘11 said. “Also, it’ll force people to visit the new Wold building,” agreeing with Detora’s reasoning.
Detora believes that this “will help the student body promote more programs.” The new student-run area will be a space for the campus community to find out more and learn about clubs and programs that already exist on campus.
“I think it’s a good idea to have a more accessible and noticeable student activities place, but I feel like it just makes the most sense for the Starbucks Kiosk to be in Reamer,” Michelle Frankel ‘13 said. Ultimately, Frankel believes students who want their coffee will venture to Wold regardless.
For the remainder of Fall Term, however, the Starbucks Kiosk will remain open and running as normal. Until the official opening of the Wold Science Building during Spring Term, students can continue to stop in at the Reamer Starbucks for their daily caffeine doses.
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