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Ole leads fight against junk food in school vending machines

By Tom Vogel
May 24, 2006

Bryan Bass '95, assistant principal at North Community High School in Minneapolis, is featured in a recent Star tribune article on the reduction of junk food in urban high schools. Bass, a political science major while at St. Olaf, has been on a crusade to replace pop and candy machines in school cafeterias with healthier fare, such as juice and bottled water. In the article, Bass, who is concerned about the obesity rates in the students he sees, criticizes the fast food and junk food industries for targeting the poor. "I compare it to drug dealing," he tells the Star tribune.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.