Rockbot Request<\/a> on their phones.<\/p>\nRubin Holland, the Gourmet Dining Services (GDS) Nighttime Floor Manager, said he likes the new feature as it provides the workers with something to listen to while they work.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives the students something to listen to while they\u2019re eating,\u201d Holland said. \u201cIf they don\u2019t feel like talking or interacting with other people, they can just listen to the music.\u201d<\/p>\n
After downloading the app and creating a profile, students can pick and vote for their favorite songs. The more votes, the faster the song plays. Plus, students can save their favorite tracks on the app, allowing them to play those songs faster.<\/p>\n
Isabella Lynn, a sophomore philosophical theology and physics major, said the dining hall\u2019s new feature affects not only current students but also prospective students.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really nice when tours come in, and they get to experience that,\u201d Lynn said. \u201cIt gives a food court vibe, which is kind of nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Songs chosen are filtered to ensure they are clean and university-appropriate. Students can request songs such as \u201cLove Me Like You Do\u201d by Ellie Goulding and \u201cChampion\u201d by Bishop Briggs. Ashley Thomas, a junior forensic accounting major, has a specific artist in mind as a dining hall favorite.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI like when they play Drake because it\u2019s a nice vibe, not too loud,\u201d Thomas said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rockbot has different DJ levels, and students can level up by getting likes on songs. Aside from adding and voting on music for free, students can pay for tokens, which boost their picks to the top of the queue. Holland said he appreciates the DJ factor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI also really like that you can actually mess with it yourself, as the DJ role,\u201d Holland said. \u201cA lot of the time you just have to listen to what they play, so to be able to add your own music, I really like that part.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holland said the idea for incorporating music in the dining hall came from Ed Mallaney, GDS\u2019s Regional Dining Manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something new that we figured y\u2019all would like,\u201d Holland said. \u201c[We] try to throw out new things to entertain y\u2019all.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Alisia Sadler, a junior forensic accounting major, and her friends, the transition to music in the dining hall is cool, but a little overstimulating.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came back from spring break, and we were like, \u2018What is that noise?\u2019\u201d Sadler said. \u201cIt was just loud music, maybe if it was a little lower, because sometimes it gets to the point where we can\u2019t even hear each other talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holland said the music used to be louder, but the workers have turned it down.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt might be a point where sometimes they maybe don\u2019t want to hear the music at all,\u201d Holland said. \u201cIt\u2019s like that one saying: to each their own.\u201d<\/p>\n
The poster with instructions on how to request music is on a bulletin board in the dining hall by the pizza section.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Calla Patino is the head editor for <\/em>The Setonian\u2019s Opinion section. She can be reached at <\/em>calla.patino@student.shu.edu<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thesetonian.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between classes, you walk into the dining hall like normal: earbuds blasting music and locked in on whipping up your staple quesadilla from the Tex-Mex station.\u00a0 A mini plastic cup of hot sauce and salsa, your cheesy quesadilla in one hand and a lemonade in the other, you then luck out, scoring your OG booth. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2339457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2339456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Students-boogie-down-in-the-dining-hall-with-new-interactive.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339458,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339456\/revisions\/2339458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}