--- title: The Real Problem With Food On Campus description: The real problem with food on campus, why you should buy the men's version of everything and more. canonical: https://time.com/4160065/the-real-problem-with-food-on-campus/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-28T14:54:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:42.224Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Real Problem With Food On Campus og:description: These are today's best ideas. og:url: https://time.com/4160065/the-real-problem-with-food-on-campus/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Real Problem With Food On Campus twitter:description: These are today's best ideas. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Real Problem With Food On Campus by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 28, 2015 2:54 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 28, 2015 2:54 PM UTC **1\.** [**There is an actual problem with food on college campuses: waste.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/22/the-problem-coddled-college-kids-should-actually-be-complaining-about/) By Roberto A. Ferdman in the Washington Post **2\.** [**America is becoming more liberal. Here’s why.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/why-america-is-moving-left/419112/) By Peter Beinart in the Atlantic **3\.** [**What if these dark personality traits are the secret to success?**](http://www.businessinsider.com/dark-personality-traits-can-help-you-succeed-at-work-2015-12) By Shana Lebowitz in Business Insider **4\.** [**A little more inflation would help everybody.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-22/low-inflation-nirvana-is-a-gamble-for-global-central-bankers) By Craig Torres and Simon Kennedy in Bloomberg **5\.** [**From toys to razors to clothes, you should always buy the men’s version of almost anything.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/22/women-really-do-pay-more-for-razors-and-almost-everything-else/) By Danielle Paquette in the Washington Post  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4160065/the-real-problem-with-food-on-campus/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4160065/the-real-problem-with-food-on-campus/"},"headline":"The Real Problem With Food On Campus","datePublished":"2015-12-28T14:54:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:42.224Z","description":"These are today's best ideas.","url":"https://time.com/4160065/the-real-problem-with-food-on-campus/","keywords":["Innovation","Shopping","Food","politics","College","inflation","Success topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4160065/the-real-problem-with-food-on-campus/","name":"The Real Problem With Food On Campus"}}]}] ```