College orders health inspection after student allegedly finds cockroach in sandwich

DECATUR, Ga. — Students at Agnes Scott College picked a food fight with the college administration after one student reported finding a roach in her sandwich.

According to a Change.org petition, the incident occurred at Mollie’s Bakery Cafe, a snack bar located in the Alston Campus Center.

“Yesterday (4/8/2015), a student found a roach in a sandwich she ordered from Mollies,” the petition says. “This is absolutely unacceptable and poses a Public Health risk to our community.”

The petition has 304 signatures as of Monday morning.

“Agnes Scott Students are forced to pay for a meal plan that provides them with unsafe and unsanitary food,” wrote petition signer Hannah Rudolph. “If the college is so unwilling to allow students to opt to eat off campus, then it must provide food options that are healthy or, at the very least, sanitary. There are a grand total of two places to get food on campus, there are plenty of resources to fix this issue. Students shouldn’t feel apprehensive about something as routine as a meal out of fear that they might become seriously ill.”

Agnes Scott spokesperson J.D. Fite said the snack bar has passed its recent health inspections.

“I cannot verify the veracity of the claims the students make,” he said. “I can say that the dining facility in question gets unannounced health inspections every 4-6 months and has always passed these inspections. In response to the original student’s claim, we ordered an immediate pest control service and no pests were found.”