Robertson encourages students to use campus amenities

8/21/09
The Murray State News

To all new students and returning Racers alike, welcome home to Murray State University. I hope you enjoyed your summer and are ready to start a new semester. 
  With a new year comes new additions and changes, and Murray State made several over the summer. The goal of these changes is to enhance your campus life and learning environment. Continued ... Click here to read the full story.

Murray State named one of three hosts for Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program 2010-2012

6/4/09
Roundabout Murray

The Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program has accepted Murray State's proposal to serve as one of the three GSP campuses in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Murray was selected as a GSP campus through a competitive bid process open to all public and private universities in the commonwealth. MSU's Food Services and Housing Office, along with the colleges of Education and Humanities and Fine Arts, deserve particular credit for helping to craft an attractive and competitive proposal. Continued ... Click here to read the full story.

Energy Drinks Exposed: Professor advises against them, students admit overuse

4/3/09
The Murray State News

Where do Murray State students turn when they have not slept in two days, have a test to study for and still have to go to work?
    For most, the answer is caffeine and what offers more caffeine than an energy drink?
    With gas stations, Fast Track, Waterfield Library’s Starbooks and food carts strategically placed across campus, students can get their caffeine fix through a plethora of energy drink choices any time of the day. Continued ... Click here to read the full story.

Nutrition Month kicks off in Winslow, T-room

3/11/09
The Murray State News

Lose weight and get in shape. It’s an endless New Year’s resolution, a seasonal desire for swimsuit bodies and also the theme for March, National Nutrition Month.   
Continued ... Click here to read the full story.

T-room commences meal takeout program, seeks feedback

2/27/09
The Murray State News

“Dinner from our kitchen to yours” is the catchphrase for Thoroughbred Room Takeout, the new Food Services program that provides a pre-cooked, microwaveable, one-dish meal to-go. Continued ... click here to read the full story.

Murray State supports Needline’s Backpack program

1/22/09
Roundabout Murray

Murray State University faculty, staff and students, in conjunction with Needline, have amassed enough food and donations to give nearly 1,000 in-need children a weekend meal, and plans are underway to continue. The university community collected 862 bags of food and 820 pounds of backpack-appropriate food items for the Backpack Program so far this school year. Nearly $1,200 has been raised for additional Backpack food items. Read the fulle article in Roundabout Murray.

Since October, Food Services has donated more than 5,600 items to the Backpack Program.

Help Food Services Help the Community:

At Fast Track, for every two items sold from the list below, Food Services will donate one item to the Backpack Program.

• Fruit Gushers
• Capris Suns
• Applesauce Cups
• Frito Lay Peanuts
• Frito Lay Snack Crackers
• Rold Gold Pretzels
• Little Debbie Sunbelt Granola Bars
• Nature Valley Granola Bars
• General Mills Cereal Bars

Faculty and staff have opportunity to dine with students at Winslow

1/14/09
Roundabout Murray

On the first day of classes Monday, January 12, 2009, Gina Winchester, Staff Regent, and Phil Schooley, Staff Congress president, took advantage of a new employee discount on campus compliments of Mr. Richard Fritz and MSU Food Service.

The idea of a discount on campus for food purchases came to the attention of the Director of Food Service, Richard Fritz, as a suggestion from the recent staff survey conducted by Staff Congress. The intent of the discount is three fold: to encourage faculty, staff and their families to dine together on campus with the students; to make it more attractive and convenient to dine on campus; and help ease the burden of meal purchases in a tight budget year when no raises were given.

Read the full artice in Roundabout Murray.

Record Crowd Attends Midnight Breakfast

12/8/2008
Charlie Cox - Racer Hospitality

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but Murray State students were lined around the block for free breakfast Sunday night – Midnight Breakfast, that is.  One-thousand six-hundred eighty students were served this finals week eve, Dec. 7, 2008.  Cost of entry was no more than a flash of a student ID. 

Midnight Breakfast has been a tradition in Racer Hospitality for nearly a decade.   On top of everyone’s favorite breakfast items, games and giveaways sought to liven the stress-filled college atmosphere of impending exams and final project due dates.

Nothing seems to take the edge off like maple syrup, and this year’s crowd certainly brought their appetite.

In three hours, from 9p.m. until midnight, various faculty and staff, including University President Randy Dunn, helped serve 270 lbs of bacon, 40 lbs of ham, 320 lbs of eggs, 294 lbs of potatoes and 1,900 biscuits.

All in all, it was a great event and Racer Hospitality thanks all who attended. We hope to see you again next semester.

International students experience holiday season with traditional Thanksgiving dinner

11/14/2008
The Murray State News

On Nov. 27, many Murray State students will sit down for a hearty meal with their families. But for international students who cannot afford to make a long trip home for a short American holiday, Murray State is here to help.

Richard Fritz, director of Food Services, has partnered with Institute of International Studies Director Michael Basile to ensure international students have a positive Thanksgiving celebration by hosting a traditional Thanksgiving dinner at Winslow Dining Hall and encouraging American students to invite international students to their homes for celebration.Continued ...

Read the entire article HERE.

Organizations partner to continue campus recycling

11/14/2008
The Murray State News

The Murray Environmental Student Society, Wal-Mart and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Murray/Calloway County have partnered to provide students with opportunities to recycle items most would simply throw away.

Murray State facilities accommodate efforts to recycle paper, plastics and aluminum, but the ink cartridge and cell phone drive is yet another way Murray Environmental Student Society is allowing all of us to do our part to "go green."

On Nov. 7, the local Big Brothers/Big Sisters charity delivered a decorated mailbox to Winslow Dining Hall for students to mail their old cartridges and cellular devices. Continued ...

Read the entire article HERE.

Future Chefs Assist Winslow Bakery

Charlie Cox
Nov. 10, 2008

The high ceilings of Winslow Dining Hall, which normally echo with the voices of teens and twenty-somethings, were reverberating with the jovial voices of a younger crowd Monday, Nov. 10.

Nearly 200 children from Hopkinsville Middle School visited Murray State’s campus with GEAR UP Kentucky, a program that encourages young people to stay in school and study hard.  But it was an eight-member middle-school age delegation from Ft. Campbell, Ky., who gained a hands-on lesson in the Winslow bakery.

Donned in a tall white chef’s hat, latex gloves, and ice cream scoop in hand, each child assisted full-time Winslow employee, Rena Poyner, in the creation of sugar cookies and sprinkle-filled cupcakes.   The treats were later boxed and shipped home with them along with complimentary Racer Hospitality mugs.

The young baking crew was led by child and youth program assistants Chanecia Coney-Belmont and Donna Anderson from the Taylor Youth Center Eagles Program. 

Anyone can join the youth center, Coney-Belmont said, including the children of retired military personnel, civilians and soldiers on base.

“A lot of our kids’ parents are deployed,” Coney-Belmont said.

The center, which enrolls approximately 80 children during the school year and more than 100 during the summer, hosts a consortium of afterschool activities. 

Along with basketball, rock climbing, physical education, tech lab, newspaper journalism, and photography, children are taught sewing by Anderson.  She is also helping the children compile a cookbook for the holidays.

“We hope to someday get a cooking show started for these kids,” Coney-Belmont said, an endeavor Dining Hall Manager Linda Hollingsworth supports.

“Maybe I’ll see you someday on the Food Network,” Hollingsworth said in farewell to the group which visited from 1 to 3:30p.m.

The visit was also a welcome homecoming for Coney-Belmont, who during her studies at Murray State was grad assistant to Hollingsworth.  Coney-Belmont helped lay the ground work for several expanding programs at Racer Hospitality including nutritional consultation, the nutritional Web site, recipe management and international events.

Visit Taylor Youth Center online at http://www.fortcampbellmwr.com/CYS/TYC/

President's Perspective

Roundabout Murray
Read Full Article Here.

*Campus programming is important to creating a culture on a campus. If we are to live up to our mission, we need signifiers across campus that remind the campus community that internationalization should always be on our minds. The international food offerings at Winslow, the international direction pole in the Curris Center, ongoing international forums and events throughout the year—these things remind us all that internationalization really does matter, and that we can’t truly call ourselves “educated” without having that perspective on a continuous basis. Continued...

Korean Cuisine at Winslow!

Food: All-Access Asian
By Allison Perlik, Senior Editor -- Restaurants and Institutions, 10/1/2008
The new Korean menu at Murray State University in Murray, Ky., is a hit, and the best proof is the empty plates. ...

At Murray State, the winning strategy wasn’t just to start off slowly with simple, approachable recipes but also to make sure dishes were done correctly from the beginning. Instead of asking staff to work through unfamiliar recipes and possibly introduce Korean menu items that were not up to par, Fritz recruited an expert. Korean-born Soojin McKibben, married to a member of the university’s international studies program, prepares the dishes with help from staff cooks. ... continued in Restaurants and Institutions.

Cater to you

After fall break, Food Services will integrate several new programs into the Winslow Dining Hall experience.

The state of the economy is a large influence on the University's plans, Linda Hollingsworth, manager of Winslow Dining Hall and Fast Track said. ... Read the entire article HERE.

Straight from the farm

Freshly grown lettuce, beets, collard greens and many other kinds of produce will soon highlight Food Services menus with the cultivation of Murray State's Mabel G. and J. Stanley Pullen Farm. ... Read the entire article HERE.

Campus organizations unite

On Sept. 18, Murray State students will join together for Unity Day, a celebration of diversity. Unity Day begins at 10 a.m. Students will receive ribbons outside the Thoroughbred Room to promote unity awareness. ... Read the entire article HERE.

Starting the fall semester 2008 ...

Our carry out containers are now 100 percent biodegradable.  Your straw - biodegradable. Your paper cup - biodegradable. Your foam container - biodegradable.  Even your plastic fork.

It's just one small part of Sustainablity Through Responsibility.  Look for ways you can help.