On-Campus Interview

After adventuring around campus interviewing faculty members and students they shared their thoughts about calorie counts being required to be posted on their menus.
Wandering around Tawes Hall there was junior, Sheldon Jackson who is a “law and society” major with a focus on criminal justice. I shared with him the assignment about “interviewing random people” assignment for journalism and he was comfortable with the interview. Following with the question, “do you believe that all restaurants should be required to post calorie counts on their menus, and if so why?” Sheldon replied, “Yes, because individuals who are eating there could possibly be trying to be healthy.” I also asked if there were any other reason that he felt it should be required and he said, “It might affect your body and may affect their image.”
After walking down the hall stopping at the information center, Judie Abbatt was my next questionnaire person. Asking the same question she chuckled answering, “no, because people are too stupid and should know they are eating.” Judie also explained that it is that person’s fault that they want to overeat and stuff their faces.
Junior, Kenny Pratt known by “Wizard” is a mass communication major. He started the conversation saying” let me guess this is for your journalism class”, and I laughed replying, “Yes you could say that.” After asking the question on the note card his reply was that people complain and blame others too much. Kenny then shares with me, “yes there should be calorie counts on the menu, just for the simple fact that everyone complains about their fat and wants to sue the restaurants”. He also shared another opinion saying, “These companies need to avoid all the damn lawsuits and the people’s stupidity across the nation”. Then he began interviewing another student.
Walking over to the student support services, administrator assistant Roxanne Weighley was the final interviewee. She replies to my question while laughing, “you’re looking at me you can’t tell.” Grabbing her stomach. I didn’t know whether to laugh or not even though it was quite hilarious. Then Roxanne continued on, “people may assume that there are less calories than they may think and they may decide to not order it. She talked for some length about a recent news report on the Ihop’s new breakfast. They said that its 1300 calories and Roxanne responded, “you eat, get tired, and go right back to bed; then you wake up thinking where’d all this access weight come from.” Her final answer was “but yes just for health reasons.”