Eating at college can be costly, to both your wallet and your waistline. If this is a problem you all too well understand, read a few of the points our writers here at G&B have come up with to help you decide on whether you should go 'Meal Plan' or 'No Plan.'

It's the season of love, the time to show your special someone how you feel. You and your love might look to enjoy a taste of Italy, whose people are arguably the world’s romance and culinary pros. Should you empty your pockets on fancy pasta dishes in Lady and the Tramp style: candlelight and live musical accompaniment? Rather, do you get creative and devise an inexpensive alternative? Which is also Lady and the Tramp swag. (They ate for free in front of a dumpster.)

The latest film of the “Twilight” saga, “Breaking Dawn: Part 1,” comes out this month. You may already have your costume and fake blood ready to go for the midnight premiere or you might be sick of this Twi-Harding madness, waiting for just about any other supernatural creature to take vampires’ place.

Should you go all out or save your energy for the game?

Is it better to be Greek ... or Greek?

Should smoking on campus be banned?

NO

Asking if our University is spending too much on going green is like asking if UNICEF is spending too much on saving children. This is one of those situations where one must look at the bigger picture. By investing money in green initiatives now, our school is taking early steps to ensure that our world will continue to be a place in which we can comfortably live. The preservation of our environment and its resources determines the future survival of all living things including plants, humans and animals. Going green not only helps save energy and natural resources, it also benefits the environment by reducing water, air and ground pollution among many other things.