The Whitworthian

Issue date: 2/27/07 Last Updated: 8/9/07

Sodexho managers at Whitworth are currently in the process of establishing Campus Kitchens, a program founded in Washington D.C. that allows students to work with college kitchen staff to maximize the use of leftovers.

Whitworth is lacking the transportation necessary for complete participation in the program, but the organization's Gonzaga University chapter has arranged for pickup of food leftovers from Whitworth's kitchens.

"We're trying to organize it better," Jim O'Brien, the Sodexho general manager at Whitworth, said. "We need to gather more food, and fix the problem of transport."

Charles Wesley, the Sodexho general manager at Gonzaga, said Gonzaga's kitchen has created thousands of meals for unemployed adults since the program was established at the university in 2005.

"We were the first campus west of the Mississippi to implement the Campus Kitchens program," Wesley said.

Campus Kitchens was founded in 2001 and is staffed primarily by student volunteers.

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