Students Call For Return of Pauly’s

To the Editors:

For 2 years my friends and I have been frequenting Pauly’s East Coast Pizza. Every Sunday night we would reflect on the passing week while savoring the sweet ambrosia that was Pauly’s pizza. The slices were luxuriously big and the toppings bountiful. We would receive these large, tasty slices within minutes of ordering from the friendly and efficient employees.
After the recent change in management, we continued our weekly visits to what had become Downtown Pizza. Much had changed, however. The slices were now meager, hardly filling, but for the same price! That though, would not have been enough to ruin the experience. It was the massive decline in quality that did that. The pizza toppings were affixed to the inadequately sized slices by a mysterious white substance. What was formerly a subtle, delicately textured crust had been replaced by something thoroughly pedestrian, not dissimilar to cardboard. Yet we continued, vainly, to visit Downtown Pizza, hoping something would improve.
Our frustration reached its zenith, though, two Sundays ago. We arrived around 11:15 and took our place in an unusually long line. At 11:45, we had not advanced at all, and none of the people who had been waiting for their food since prior to our arrival had been served. The phone rang off the hook. Pizza was not forthcoming. The only employee present was puttering around in the back, seemingly oblivious to the frustrated line, the patiently waiting patrons who had already ordered, and the phone. We waited five more minutes and decided we would rather heat up our own frozen pizza in a timely manner. As we drove back into town on our way back from Giant Eagle, we saw the same people standing in line, still without food. Our pizza was, in point of fact, better than anything we had ever been served at Downtown Pizza.
Oberlin students should, from now on, boycott Downtown Pizza. The employees there must not be forced to demean themselves making pizza which they surely know to be wholly substandard. Pauly’s was the only place in Oberlin to get cheap, fast, and high quality food late at night, and now it is gone. What is happening there now is a monstrosity, an affront to everything we in Oberlin hold dear. Please, Pauly, on behalf of the Oberlin community, we beg you to come back.

–Justin Cohen
College junior