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...swing through Lubbock, Tex. had Harvard sweeping Michigan but suffering two blowouts at Texas Tech...
Hometown: Lubbock...
...favorites were missing from the cafeteria menus: sodas and candy bars had been banned for grade schoolers; chips and cookies were mini-size. And that perennial favorite, the French fry, was given just one more year before it too will be banned. Howls of protest could be heard from Lubbock to Laredo. And not just from students. Principals complained about being forced to act as "nutrition police." Teachers said they needed candy to reward students. Parents and kids traded schoolyard rumors about Twinkies being confiscated from lunch boxes. Nearly everyone, addicted to the revenues that vending machines bring in, yelled...
...obese young boy sat right in front of him. "We have food chaos in our schools, with coaches selling food, moms selling food, PTAs selling, Project Graduation, the Kiwanis, and then there's the manufacturers trying to get into the schools to build brand loyalty," she says. One Lubbock grade school, she adds, even rolled carts with candy down the halls to sell to kindergartners. "The whole culture inside our schools is pervaded--invaded--by this marketing of food to the child. We put our financial needs ahead of their best interests," she says. "It's shocking...
Harvard baseball opened the 2004 season on a Texas-sized offensive binge in Lubbock but struggled to find its groove, wrapping up the non-conference schedule with a losing record...