Get Your Hands Out of Our Chips: 5 Reasons Why We Need Our Junk Food

Junk food and caffeine keep universities running. When you step onto a campus and see students bustling to and fro, pumping out volumes of writing, grinding through exams, and still having enough energy to hit the bar or party, all of that movement is fueled by junk food and caffeine. So when I see government and other policy-influencing bodies trying to ban or otherwise limit that oh so vital energy supply, I get a little nervous. Here are 5 reasons why we need junk food and why the nation’s institutions of higher learning would collapse without it.