Ugh... I am not surprised. Incivility rules these days. And I think you summed it up nicely. The cafeteria/restaurants that allowed this should have been reported to the Health Department. THEY would care! E-Coli is not our friend.
Quite true, but this was in 1968 on the Cornell campus. Arrogant a..holes have always been with us.
The only thing they could have done would have been to call the campus police, and the cafeteria workers would have caused a lot of trouble for themselves turning in a faculty wife who probably would have gotten a stern talking to - if that. Since they knew who she was I suspect that they had trouble with her before. The cafeteria workers were all students, and having a faculty member out to screw you over is not a good thing. Look at what happened to the faculty trash who signed the condemnation letter of the Duke Lacrosse players (nothing).