My name is Jacob Mauck, and I’m angry. I’m angry because the Holy Cow Café is being taken from my community. I am a student at the University, I am an Oregonian, and I am a disgruntled American. Between the complexities of being a busy student, an overworked employee, a citizen of a fascist and evil government and a tired and frustrated human being, I also need to eat. When I eat, I sometimes do not have the time to go all the way home and cook up a meal that supports the things that I believe in (sustainability, humanitarianism and re-localization), but luckily for me, I have the opportunity, nay, the privilege, to support the Holy Cow Café by eating there.
Mr. Frohnmayer, you are the president of my University, and I read that you ‘claim’ to ‘support’ sustainable and local practices, but I say to you, sir: Outsourcing the one and only of its kind to a Portland-based, soon-to-be chain of (though I do love and support Laughing Planet) de-diversifying, greed-satisfying (I know someone out there is making some profit off of this, besides Laughing Planet) restaurants. It doesn’t get more local and diverse! There is only one Holy Cow Café, and when it is replaced, it will not exist anymore! I entreat, to those of you that have the power to prevent this from happening, to do so. I, among many others at this University, will not let this issue go quietly into the night. Please don’t take away my Holy Cow Cafe, as it represents far more to me than just a place to buy a meal. It is one of the things that make the U of O special and unique. You can get a chicken sandwich next door at Subway, or go to Panda Express, but nowhere else can you get what the Holy Cow provides. I’m angry, and I’m not the only one. Don’t let this happen.
Jacob Mauck
University student