Georgetown got a middling rating on environmental sustainability, but at least we’re doing one thing right: cafeteria food? PETA has added Georgetown to its list of the most vegetarian friendly colleges. The school’s also been entered in the voting to decide the most vegetarian friendly college of them all. And it’s all because of those sinister tofu cubes:

Some smart dishes featured on campus include vegan wild-mushroom and barley ragout, tofu stir-fry with orange-ginger sauce, and vegan rosemary polenta with broccoli rabe.

To be sure, the seasoned fries are delicious. But how many of those can you eat before you back gain the weight you became a vegetarian to lose?

Via Degenerate and Collegiate, who writes for the Voice and is less thrilled about Leo’s than PETA is.
-Will Sommer, blog editor

When Georgetown environmental group EcoAction sent out an email Wednesday asking people on their email list to steal apples from Leo’s for a booth at the UNICEF carnival, it must’ve seemed harmless. Who hasn’t taken cookies home for later, or brought Tupperware in a backpack for larger-scale larceny? Two people EcoAction CC’d disagreed–an Aramark representative and Margie Bryant, Vice President of Auxiliary Services, the department in charge of Leo’s. Internet drama ensued!

Margie hit “reply all” and ripped EcoAction, saying they weren’t making friends in the administration (does this mean no more LCD screens?).

Tripti Bhattacharya (SFS ‘10), EcoAction’s president, said it was “just a misunderstanding.” But the emails make clear that neither Bryant or EcoAction are confused about their positions (anti- and pro-apple theft, respectively). When I mentioned to Bhattacharya that I had seen the emails, she just said “Oh” and there was a long pause. Bryant didn’t respond in time for this post.

In the end EcoAction got the apples from Georgetown’s other fruit monger, Mission Three, and the UNICEF booth was saved. But will EcoAction ever get to hawk their environment petitions in Leo’s again?
Emails and commentary after the jump.

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