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The University of Pittsburgh gives new meaning to "baggage fees"

Students at the University of Pittsburgh have bagged plastic bags, reducing usage by 80% in just one month.

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Shippensburg Univ. students can now preorder food remotely

Students can now pre-order food from convenient locations around campus, thanks to efforts by Chartwells, the company that runs Shippensburg University Dining Services.

Shabazz Napier said he sometimes goes to bed “starving” because he can’t afford food, according to an April 8 Washington Post article. What do you think?

Tufts Dining Services, in an April 9 press release, announced several changes to the Premium Meal Plan for fall 2014, including the elimination of the popular "trick turning."

Click through a Snapshots of all the recipes for the April 2014 issue. This month features seafood and pasta dishes.

Locally grown food in the University of Montana's dining hall is about to get hyper-local.

Tufts Dining Services recently changed the hours of late-night dining at the Commons Deli and Grill on Fridays and Saturdays, after receiving reports of rowdy student behavior.

Texas A&M officials announced Friday the outsourcing of food services in all of the campus' athletic facilities, the largest known contract of its kind in the U.S. collegiate market.

Turning food waste into fertilizer is one of the ways Western Kentucky University is demonstrating sustainability.

Bryn Mawr students will be “eating fresh and eating local” on Thursday, April 10, as Dining Services and the Sustainable Food Committee present a “100-Mile Meal.” - See more at: http://news.brynmawr.edu/2014/04/09/students-eat-fresh-eat-local-at-special-100-mile-meal/#sthash.AXHU2poH.dpuf

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