With recent economic pressures continuing to drive up the cost of food, Bowdoin Dining sent out a campus-wide email on Thursday announcing that all meals on campus will now cost 1.5 meal swipes. “The purchasing power of one meal swipe has simply gone down compared to the value of a meal.

This isn’t a decision we wanted to make, but we had to do so in order to remain competitive in the economic sphere of college dining,” Isaiah Williams, the Executive Director of Dining Services, shared with reporters when asked about the decision to increase the number of meal swipes required to access a dining hall.

“I know there has been some worry that this may lead to students skipping meals in order to not run out of meal swipes too quickly. Honestly, I think eating fewer meals may just be what some students on campus need, not to fat-shame or anything, but just like that’s my personal preference. Not that I’m looking at students in that way, even though they’re all adults, so it would be totally fine if I was. But I’m not. I’m not looking at them like that, and I love my wife. Can we get back to the point? Meals are more expensive and it’s Biden’s fault.”

In response to the increase in the cost of meals, President Zaki sent out an email and declared that she would be leading a hunger strike in solidarity with students between dinner Sunday night and breakfast Monday morning, although critics have pointed out that this is a time during which she already would not have been eating.