After ending his hunger strike Wednesday, Willy Bailey refused to eat his first weekend meal at 1835 Hinman.

He chose Thai Sookdee instead. He might be eating but he’s not giving in completely.

“There are definitely better places to eat in Evanston than Hinman. If I’m gonna walk, I’m gonna go someplace better than Hinman,” said Bailey, who since Sept. 26 had refused to eat in protest of the decision to replace Allison Hall with 1835 Hinman as a South Campus weekend dining facility.

A banana ended the Weinberg sophomore’s strike on Wednesday.

After sitting through a four-and-a-half hour Associated Student Government meeting Wednesday night during which senators passed a bill requesting that Allison dining hall be opened one day every weekend, Bailey returned to his Allison dorm room and unpeeled the sweet fruit. As he bit into a morsel of food for the first time in eight days, he thought, “It’s a little dry.”

Although the banana couldn’t satisfy Bailey, ASG’s bill has contented him for now. The bill also calls for administrators to disclose the reasons weekend meals were moved from Allison to 1835 Hinman and for all future changes in dining issues to go through the Residential Dining Food Services Committee.

Bailey said he’s not planning any other strikes in the near future, but he does want to continue to effect change in university policy.

“I hope to get involved in ASG in the future,” he said.

Bailey said he has been eating a meal a day since Thursday, and he’s already noticed an increase in his energy level and his weight. And his friends say they are happy to see him consuming more than water and strawberry-flavored protein shakes.

“When he was striking, I would constantly ask him how he was feeling,” said Speech freshman Alan Lawrence, who lives next door to Bailey. “We all made his health of primary importance.”

Friday marked the first day Bailey actually ate in the Allison dining hall since beginning to strike. He ate a bowl of soup and said the staff was happy to see him eating — and not holding a fork in the air in protest.

Lawrence said he now has a newfound respect for Bailey.

“Willy was definitely righteous in his cause, which was basically the cause that our country was founded on: No taxation without representation,” he said.

Bailey added: “If it brought awareness to the fact that the administration tends to ignore the students on some issues, then I’m glad I did it.”