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Interesting article from The Nation on how for-profit colleges mislead students into protecting the college's own bottom-line!

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A more substantive Stir It Up-date coming tomorrow! For now, here’s a really interesting article by Michael Pollan in the New York Review of Books. 

The article contains a lot of information to chew on for students planning to build a diverse coalition of organizations in the fight to democratize campus food service.  Here’s a piece of the article that describes the diverse interests that hold a stake in effecting change in the food system:  

Just a quick thought: if Compass really wants to kick-start its new flexitiarian initiative, it might want to share this recent article about a filler (referred to by one USDA microbiologist as “pink slime”) that its producer, Beef Products, Inc., reports is used in a majority of the hamburgers sold nationwide. Check it out: