While many students take their meals in their dorm dining halls, most campuses still have other student dining facilities.  Whether it’s a snack bar, cafe, full restaurant or bar, the prices are geared to a student budget.  Of course, the food is geared to a student palate as well, but if you’ve been subsisting on a diet of cold snacks, a burger may seem pretty darn tasty.

Most non-dorm dining facilities are open to the greater campus community – meaning visitors as well as students.  Plan on using cash, as not all accept debit or credit cards.

Since Boston if full of colleges and universities, I’m sure there are lots of options for a reasonably priced meal.

If you know a great campus cafe or bar, please leave a recommendation in the comments.

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Post from: The Boston Traveler

This year there’s a bit of a controversy, though, because Auditi Guha, a reporter for the local community newspaper the Somerville Journal not only decided to film the students as they launched their eye-catching event but to post the resulting video footage on that icon of voyeuristic viral-ness called YouTube. The video is also featured in the article “Tufts Naked Run Brings Students Together — with a Few Injuries” posted on the newspaper’s website. Critics argue that those actions are a violation of the students’ right to privacy … as hordes of them jog buck-naked … outside in the great wide open … for any passersby to see.

As the Bostonist notes, there’s really no need for the unwitting subjects of the nearly three-minute clip to fear recognition since Guha did at least have the consideration to film them only from behind (double entendre fully intended). Still, as you can imagine, posting this kind of traditional yet local coverage on the Web has rubbed many the wrong way, no ifs, ands, or butts about it. Maybe the kids will think twice before running around au naturel outdoors next year now that the taboo of filming them has been broken in a very public, widely available way. Then again, knowing fun-loving college students, probably not.

Post from: The Boston Traveler