February is Canned Food Month, so cheer up! Soup, tuna, pasta, corn, pork and beans, green beans, tomatoes, peaches, pineapple, and ham and bulk meats were the ten top-selling canned foods in 1987, according to the Canned Food Information Council on North Michigan Avenue.
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Hypocrite watch: When U.S. Secretary of Education William (“Chicago is the worst”) Bennett fulminates against college students who default on their loans, why don’t reporters ask him about his boss’s bigger and more consequential default? So asks Chicago Media Critic editor Bill Nigut Sr. (January 1988). “The reporters didn’t ask Bennett if he believed Reagan’s refusal to raise taxes to pay for his arms buildup had set a bad example for students. The reporters didn’t ask Bennett: ‘Mr. Secretary, if the president says “I never worry about the deficit. The deficit is big enough to take care of itself,” why should students worry about their loans?’”
The state should get tough on private business and vocational schools, says Attorney General Neil Hartigan. “In case after case that has come to my office’s attention”–the AG gets as many as 600 calls a week about such schools–“we have discovered that certain schools have targeted minority and disadvantaged students who have already failed in another environment. They accept students regardless of their ability to benefit from training, and they profit even when they drop out. In many instances, it is clear that the students are expected to drop out from the very beginning of the recruitment process,” leaving the students with nothing but disappointment and debt.
