Written by Laura Lawley on September 8, 2010.
WASHINGTON — Food officials in the Abilene Independent School District sampled pizza with whole-grain crust this summer.
“We weren’t that thrilled with it,” said Joann S. Knox, director of child nutrition services at Abilene ISD.
Taste, cost, nutrition and state and federal guidelines are all on the menu for school officials like Knox who want to serve more fresh fruit and vegetables, whole-grain products and other healthier items.
Texas schools are out of the frying business as of this year, and the state has some of the strictest school nutrition guidelines in the country. But the acceptance factor can’t be ignored.
“I’m all for healthy,” said Wylie ISD food service director Marka Riddle. “But it’s not healthy if they don’t eat.”
The district tries to spread the word about new items in the cafeteria, as well as make offerings appealing to gain acceptance, Riddle said.
Sometimes healthier products slip by unnoticed, like the pizza with whole-grain crust at Sweetwater ISD.
“They don’t’ have a clue,” said Barbara Woolsey, Sweetwater ISD director of food services. “You put pizza out there, and t
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Written by Angelina Weir on September 8, 2010.
Deborah Tannen, a best-selling author and university professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, will give the talk “She Said/He Said/We Said: How Family Talk Sheds Light on Language and Gender” on Thursday, Sept. 16, at 6 p.m. in the Life Sciences Complex, room 001. The lecture is free and will be followed by a book sale and signing.
The author of numerous books and articles on how the language of everyday conversation affects relationships, Tannen is best known for “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation” (William Morrow & Co., 1990), which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for nearly four years, including eight months at No. 1. Her latest book, “You Were Always Mom’s Favorite! Sisters in Co
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Written by Jade Nowland on September 5, 2010.
September 5, 2010 
Deryk Lim (#14) and Ben Murray (#3) are congratulated by teammates after the connected for the lone goal in a 2OT win over La Verne. (Photo: Tracy Maple) Soccer set to score in 2010 A solid core of 21 returning players are set to join forces with 10 incoming Tigers and a new head coach for the 2010 men’s soccer campaign. With another year of experience under their belts a fairly young squad, featuring just three seniors, will look to compete in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Two All-SCIAC Second Team players return in the senior-sophomore duo of Kosa Goucher-Lambert and Reid Sakamoto. D
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Written by Joel Ramsbotham on September 4, 2010.
My daughter and I bumped into a couple of her former high school classmates at Target one afternoon and 
she asked the two girls what they thought of San Diego State University, which is where they attend school.
I’ll never forget their enthusiastic response. They said they loved San Diego State because they could cut classes and nobody would know.
I doubt that’s the sort of endorsement that any university would appreciate, but skipping classes has probably been going on since college existed.
For all those students out there who regularly struggle with whether they should ditch a class, there is now an online calculator that can help them decide. (What would we do without the Internet?)
The Skip Class Calculator claims that it can help a student decide whether ditching a class is a smart move.
To use the Skip Class Calculator, all you have to do is provide answers to 10 questions. Her
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Written by Gabrielle Batchelor on September 3, 2010.
HOUSTON – SEARCH Homeless Services is conducting a school supply drive for homeless children until Sept. 15.
Supporters are encouraged to bring a new backpack to any Tasting Room location and they will get a free pizza in return. Anyone who drops off a backpack at MAX’s Wine Dive will get a free happy hour appetizer.
Chris Hanslik, vice chairman of BoyarMiller Attorneys at Law, sponsors of the supply drive, and Thao Costis, executive director of SEARCH Homeless Services, preview the Double the Benefit event on FOX 26 Morning News.
Double the Benefit — http://www.searchhomeless.org/search-events-detail.php?id=543