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21 NEWS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11,2015 | HILLTOPVIEWSONLINE.COM
Q & A
St. Edward’s graduate shares
experience working in politics
Photo courtesy of Shelby Cole
St. Edward’s and Hilltop Views alumna Shelby Cole shares
her experience working on Sen. Van de Putte’s campaign.
Lauren Zimbrano
@lozimbrano7
This week, I interviewed
St. Edwards University
alumna, Shelby Cole, T3.
While she was a student at
the university, Cole found-
ed the womens club soccer
team and worked as sports
editor for Hilltop Views.
Today, she is working for
Sen. Leticia Van de Putte
as the digital director of
the senator’s mayoral cam-
paign.
How's working for Van de
Putte s mayoral race?
It’s amazing! I always told
everyone I wouldn’t get in-
volved in politics unless I
was working for her ... She’s
an amazing leader with a
long legacy of service to
her community, and I know
she’ll be an amazing mayor.
She’s constantly giving us
history lessons about the
city and what she’s done to
improve it, and her (huge)
family has basically adopt-
ed me as one of their own.
I wouldn’t trade this job for
the world.
Did you ever see yourself in-
volved with the gubernatorial
campaign while in college?
I didn’t — I wanted to be
a journalist for the longest
time because it felt like the
most literal way to apply
my skills as a writer, and
I thought I was pretty po-
litically apathetic until the
filibuster happened. That
summer and those ral-
lies changed everything: I
started to get more active
in politics while working
at an LGBT magazine in
town and I actually got to
interview Sen. Van de Putte
as a writer. It was after that
interview that I started hus-
tling to work for her and a
few months later, I got the
job.
How do you think St. Ed-
ward's prepared you for this
life?
Big picture, (St. Edward’s)
helped me hone my drive
and passion for social jus-
tice. I can think critically
about the world around
me and feel fulfilled know-
ing that I wake up daily
to work for a woman who
will change and enhance
the lives of so many people,
including minority groups
like women, the LGBT
community and people of
color. (St. Edward’s) also
gave me an amazing toolkit
in my education. My back-
ground as a writer, designer
and communicator is abso-
lutely invaluable.
Is the transition from college
to the real life hard?
Yes, it was incredibly hard.
After working as the man-
aging editor at a local maga-
zine, I knew I had to transi-
tion out of that job. I then
spent five months working
three jobs: I was teaching
part-time, freelancing part-
time and interning with
The Texas Tribune. I had
to sell stuff to feed myself,
but I never gave up on my
dream to work as a writer.
St. Edward’s trained me to
be gritty, and I managed to
survive some of my most
difficult months and land
my dream job. But it took
a lot of tears and stress to
get to where I am. Being an
adult is so hard!
Where do you see yourself in
five years?
Hopefully still working
towards my top-line goal
of writing online for social
justice causes. Maybe I’m
working in politics still, or
maybe I’m at a nonprofit
organization. Who knows?
What do you miss most
about St. Edwards?
I miss the sense of com-
munity and friends. When
you’re at school, it’s all built
around you — once you
graduate, you have to make
your own community.
New Huddle renovations offer
more variety, vegetarian foods
Samantha Driscoll
@samanthdriscoll
The Huddle underwent
serious renovations this past
year. While in the past, The
Huddle has received high
levels of student disdain re-
garding their menu, many
believe that this change has
been for the better.
Whereas previously only
offering Tex-Mex style que-
sadillas, brisket and tacos,
the menu has been extended
to include a variety of pitas,
sandwiches, starters and
sides.
“I really like how The
Huddle took on diversity
this semester,” sophomore
Jasmine Kim said. “I can’t
get enough of their lamb
and beef gyros, and I love
how they have Korean
bulgogi as an option.”
The menu also includes a
variety of foods catered to-
wards students with special
dietary needs and preferenc-
es, including several vegan,
vegetarian and gluten-free
entrees.
General Manager of Bon
Appetit Michael Smith said
that the changes began with
last year’s Lunar New Year.
“We started with two
weeks of Chinese food,
then two weeks of French,
then two weeks of Middle
Eastern food and then two
weeks of Greek food,” Smith
said.
Smith was trying to start
a pop-up restaurant con-
cept, so each time the menu
changed, the decor changed
with it. The Huddle looked
completely different after
every two-week period, fol-
lowing the newly added
menu items.
“We took the bestsellers
from (the new foods), well,
the most popular, and that’s
how the new menu came
about,” Smith said.
Many students are sur-
prised and pleased with the
new food options.
“I was actually abroad
when the menu changes
happened, so I only got to
hear about it via Facebook,”
senior Morgan Carlson
said. “That was a really nice
change to come home to.
The sweet potato fries are
my favorite!”
The cultural variety of the
foods now offered is also
well-received by students.
“Being Korean, my ex-
pectations were pretty high
when it came to trying out
the pork bulgogi, but it was
fused well with American
food, and I’m glad Bon Ap-
petit is trying new things,”
Kim said. “I really hope they
keep this up, because now I
can look forward to eating
in the cafeteria.”
The menu is not the only
thing that has been updated
— the entire internal am-
bience also got revamped.
Students can now come
grab a bite to eat while play-
ing board games, darts and
foosball. The redecoration
also brought in booths, giv-
ing The Huddle more of a
diner-like appeal.
Bon Appetit also imple-
mented a number system,
which gives a little more
structure to students order-
ing, waiting for and receiv-
ing their food.
Smith said that there are
no more plans to make any
immediate changes to the
menus of any of the dining
locations across campus, but
he did say that The Huddle
will open at noon rather
than 2:00 p.m., hopefully
beginning within the next
two weeks.
“We’ve done it before, and
we’ll do it again. The faculty
lunch is from 12:00 to 1:00,
so they are never able to
make it out to The Huddle,”
Smith said.
Bon Appetit also has big
plans for this year’s Lunar
New Year on Feb. 19.
“(South Congress Mar-
ket) is going to be a Chinese
restaurant pretty much, and
we’ll have food from four
different Chinese regions,”
Smith said.
Photo by Michael Morse
The Huddle now offers more vegan and vegetarian options
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