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Dear Campus Dining,

Before we get to our request, we wish to thank the Campus Dining leadership for your work
creating a quality dining experience for students during a global pandemic. You went
above-and-beyond this past year, adapting the dining halls to meet CDC and University
guidelines, providing impressive themed dinners, and making an excellent vegan line in the
dining halls.

As you continue to improve Notre Dame’s on-campus dining, we wish to make our voices heard
on an important issue. On May 12, the Campus Dining Instagram announced that leadership is
considering the fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A as part of a new retail dining master plan. While
a large portion of the student body would approve of this decision, we hope to show that many of
us oppose the addition of Chick-fil-A.

We believe, as we wrote in The Observer, that there are a multitude of reasons to oppose
Chick-fil-A: its anti-LGBTQ+ activism, reliance on animal agriculture, and lack of
accommodations for students with special dietary needs, to name a few. Bringing Chick-fil-A to
campus would run contrary to Notre Dame’s commitment to inclusion and desire to create good
in the world. So, we ask that you remove Chick-fil-A from your considerations and instead
consider other additions to our retail dining.

Students at other universities, such as NYU and Northeastern, have made headlines in their
attempts to block Chick-fil-A. We have no plans for such a large-scale disruption; rather, we
wish to resolve this concern before it transforms into a larger controversy. Thank you for
considering our request, and we hope that this is the starter of wider dialogue on how to fulfill
students’ desires while also considering the ethics of what we consume.

Sincerely,

Jim Moster, 2022


Tilly Keeven-Glascock, 2023
Joey Jegier, 2023
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Carly Sherman, Graduate Student
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