UPDATED: Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 at 4:03 p.m.

The hours for the Slocum Café will be extended to 5:30 p.m. on Fridays on a trial basis until spring break.

If student turnout is substantial, a permanent change to the Slocum Café hours will be implemented, SA President Aysha Seedat said in an email to the Syracuse University student body on Feb. 5.

Before the extension was made, Slocum Café was open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Fridays.

An individual on SA’s Student Life committee was responsible for making this temporary extension happen, Seedat said in an interview with The Daily Orange.

The members of that committee searched MySlice to see what classes were being held in Link Hall, Shaffer Art Building and Slocum Hall during the current hours of Slocum Café, she said.

Through a survey distributed to architecture students, Seedat said the committee found that a significant number of students circulate through those buildings between the hours of 1-5 p.m. on Fridays, meaning students would benefit from the Slocum Café hours being extended.

This information was presented to SU Food Services by the committee members so that the change could be made, Seedat said.

There’s potential moving forward, Seedat said, to use this same strategic method with other campus cafes, such as Eggers Café, since it is closer to the Schine Student Center than Link and Slocum are.

“We want to make sure there are options available for students who are in that area of campus,” Seedat said.

—Staff Writer Nina Leeds contributed reporting to this article.

CORRECTION: In a previous version of this article, the Student Association committee responsible for the extended hours of Slocum Café was misstated; it was the Student Life committee that worked for the extension. The Daily Orange regrets this error.

Published on February 9, 2016 at 11:06 pm

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