BLOOMINGTON You would never know it at first glance, but thousands of students at Indiana University are trying to earn a college degree without the money to buy food or a meal plan. The on-campus Crimson Cupboard is helping feed the Hoosiers who need it most.

More than 7,000 Hoosier students used Crimson Cupboard last academic year, according to the university. The free food pantry has operated inside the Campus View Apartments for a decade, but opened a second location inside the Indiana Memorial Union two years ago.

"There are a lot of assumptions that get made where if a student can afford to go to college, surely they can afford everything that comes with that, including food," said Dee Dee Dayhoff, who oversees Crimson Cupboard as IU's associate dean of students, care and advocacy.

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