I liked your recent Globe article on bookstore prices. Making supplies, food, and clothing more accessible and affordable to our students, faculty, and staff has been a priority of mine since I became president.

I hope that you noticed that we changed the business model with our food service vendor to significantly reduce the cost of food for purchase through Point Café and Point Perk. We did this by having the University take more risk in purchasing. We also changed the format of Point Perk by greatly expanding food offerings and hours of operation. We hope to make more improvements over the semester as we garner more student-faculty-staff customer feedback.

We have been examining our bookstore operations, which led to the Bison Book Bundle. I agree with you that we need to do more to make Pioneer spirit clothing and other supplies more affordable, and we will continue to work on this.

I want to assure you that our University leadership is focused on ensuring that your Pioneer experience is of the highest
value possible.

Congratulations on publishing the first edition of the Globe on the first day of classes. I have heard this was a first. Great job and keep up the good work that you are doing for the University community.

Go Pioneers!