On Feb. 4 at noon, French multinational catering management company Sodexo gave a presentation at Scripps College in a bid to renew its contract with Scripps to manage the college’s sole dining hall, Malott Commons. The presentation, which took place at Scripps’s Balch Auditorium, was met with a room full of protesting students. The auditorium was almost completely full, with nearly every student in attendance bearing a sign reading “DROP SODEXO.” The protest was organized by

A protest will take place at Scripps College on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 12:10pm against the college’s dining hall catering company, Sodexo, which runs the college’s sole dining hall, Malott Commons. The gathering is organized by the Drop Sodexo movement at the California liberal arts college, which has campaigned for months—with another protest in March last year—to pressure the college administration to change the catering service provider. Additionally, a boycott by Scripps stud