21.   As this football season has gone unblemished, even chemistry professors have been talking about football in the dining hall, defensive end Marc Laborsky said.

22.   At the dining hall, he loads up on candy and ice cream.

23.   At Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., the first halal and kosher dining hall is scheduled to open this fall.

24.   At lunchtime these days people crowd the dining hall for a free meal and a prayer, to the accompaniment of the sound of hammering on the church roof.

25.   A card on every table in the dining hall lectures about the dangers of dehydration.

26.   A college dining hall is no longer a venue for food fights, a place where captive sophomores are force-fed gruel and green Jell-O.

27.   A heating plant and a World War II-era dining hall may be turned into artist studios.

28.   A roofed outdoor picnic area serves as a dining hall.

29.   A strike had closed classes and dining halls.

30.   About six years ago, dining hall managers there began creating vegetarian dishes but used lots of cheese.