Midnight Breakfast

By Matthew Weinberger

Last night, over 2,100 students took a break from studying and made a late-night trek to the Stony Brook Union for the twice-annual Midnight Breakfast, an all-you-can-eat extravaganza provided free to all students by the Faculty Student Association.

“As you can see, it’s a beautiful night, so it brings out beautiful people,” Lisa Ospitale, Director of Marketing and Communication for Campus Dining.

Thirty Campus Dining staff members volunteered to serve the student body a menu consisting of mainly eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, and French toast sticks, and they were backed up by more than fifty student workers.

Students were grateful for the free food. The doors opened at 11:00 p.m., and by 11:30, the line to get in went all the way out the front door of the Union and to the street. They served food until 1 a.m.

Still, some thought the quality of the food could be better.

“The sugar is yummy, the eggs are not,” said Jackie Eanes, a Chemical and Molecular Engineering major.

“I think there could have been pancakes, and I could have used more orange juice,” put in Lukas Tierney, a freshman Astronomy major.