(source: Princeton.edu)

Look, we get it. One of the greatest perks of going to Princeton is the free food. I say this with only a small amount of sarcasm, because we, too, have experienced the bliss of stumbling across a platter of abandoned cookies from Olives or walking into a study break just in time to snatch the last samosa.

And we, like many before us, have wondered just how easy it would be to be a freegan here at Princeton. Last week we even gave you “The Scavenger’s Guide to Princeton” to share our wealth of free food-related knowledge.

But you gotta have style.

Not to point any fingers (You’ll get this pun in a minute.) but we’re talking to you, Woody Woo.

From an email sent out to Woodrow Wilson School undergraduates earlier this week:

Regarding food for events at Robertson Hall- Students can’t have food until the organizer says they can have it.  Two different events this past week had students taking food even when the organizer said it wasn’t available.  One student in particular walked along the table poking their finger in the food after being told no. [Emphasis ours.]

The email goes on to add that the food-poker may not necessarily be a Woody Woo student, so, OK. Let’s make this a lesson for all of us, then: it takes a certain amount of shamelessness to become really excellent at finding and getting your hands on free food. And that’s a hit that our dignity is willing–happy, really–to take. (Extra points if you can get in on a free dinner at Lahiere’s or Prospect House.) But it takes even more shamelessness to ruin that free food for others…especially while someone is watching you.