Columbia Dining During COVID-19 Creates Waste in a Time of Food Insecurity Columbia Dining During COVID-19 Creates Waste in a Time of Food Insecurity Noelle Hunter / Staff Illustrator March 7, 2021, 1:31 PM The “new normal” I had heard about for months was in front of me. I was eating lunch in an outdoor tent in mid-January, talking with classmates I had previously only seen in Zoom squares. I was grateful to experience a taste of campus life. I’d been home since March, but the comfortable warmth I felt seeing the lit trees along College Walk for the first time and building a snowman in front of Butler Library was the most at home I’d felt in months.