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Top 50 green colleges

The Princeton Review has announced the Top 50 green colleges.

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Study finds drug abuse highest in hospitality

The government report found that one in five foodservice and hotel employees had used illicit substances in the prior month.

A former cafeteria worker at Keystone Oaks School District in Pittsburgh, Penn., could serve up to one year in jail after pleading guilty to stealing more than $90,000 from students’ meal accounts.

The contractor and the University Dining Commission are collaborating on an initiative to rethink the college eating experience.

Pamela Anderson and PETA are praising a jail that has gone completely meat-free, serving only vegetarian meals to prisoners.

Tennessee has passed a bill opponents are calling ‘starve the children’, which allows school boards to opt out of the National Food Lunch Program without penalty from the state.

A school in Pennsylvania will serve as a Smarter Lunchrooms pilot site—a low-cost research-based initiative from Cornell University encouraging students to eat healthier at school.

Although free lunches are available to all students in Wilkes County, more students are not taking advantage due to their dissatisfaction with food served under the new federal nutrition guidelines—resulting in the program losing money.

Sodexo has informed the state of Wisconsin that it will lay off nearly 300 employees in June, when one university transitions to Chartwells.

Students at the Georgia college are circulating a petition, arguing that they’re required to pay for a meal plan that’s substandard.

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