BEVERLY HILLS, August 24, (THEWILL) – A Nigerian computer science student at New York University (NYU), Dorothy Akpovwa’s outburst on Twitter over the quality of meals served students at the institution in the ongoing coronavirus quarantine has caused the management of the school to amend the feeding policy after her tweet was reported by national and international media.
“This is what NYU gave us to eat yall looks like im going to look like a skeleton once quarantine is over because imagine me eating this. How does this food combination even make sense?” she had written on Twitter.
The post, which Dorothy did not think would attract lots of attention, however made headlines on CNN, USA Today and several other outlets.
THEWILL notes that Dorothy is the daughter of Dan Akpovwa, the Publisher of the Abuja Inquirer.
The university is scheduled to resume physical classes on September 2. However, to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, it introduced a policy where students coming in from foreign countries or restricted places, quarantine for two weeks.
The varsity in a statement promised to “provide students with three complimentary boxed meals and a snack per day” including those who have dietary restrictions.
But a few days after the commencement of the programme, the 2,600 students quarantining within the school’s premises lamented about the poor quality of meals and delivery of food at stipulated periods.
This development prompted Akpovwa’s social media post after she received one of her meals — a watermelon-cucumber chicken salad — on Thursday. The post generated 40 shares and 17 comments.
Speaking with CNN and USA Today, the Nigerian stated that she got her complete meals on the first day but had to wait till 10pm the next day before dinner was served.
She added that aside late food delivery, the meals were also deficient of the needed amount of calorie for a day.
The varsity’s management has also assured that they will remedy the situation as they stated in a statement apologizing for the lapses.
“We are aware of the students’ complaints, which are valid. This is a never-before-tried operation for us and our food vendor, Chartwells (ie, large-scale delivery of meals to student rooms,” the statement partly read.
“We are dismayed that this didn’t go off as planned, we and Chartwells apologize to the students, and we are committed to correcting this promptly.”
In addition, the institution promised that each of the students affected would get a $100 e-gift card to spend on food delivery.
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