In the Vaseline-lensed sixties and seventies in which Mellencamp’s song is set, hundreds of franchises were scattered across America’s heartland. The Tastee Freez chain was founded in 1950 in Illinois. In an attempt to immortalize yet another minor music landmark, Vulture set out to find exactly which Tastee Freez Mellencamp was singing about. With Diane in his lap, Jackie makes a dubious offer to go “dribble off those Bobbie Brooks” - irresistible, apparently, despite his almost-certainly beefy-bean breath. The GMA report specified the line, “Suckin’ on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freez,” going on to note that “the actual Tastee Freez is long gone,” before segueing into Mellencamp’s concerns about the corporatization of middle America and the destruction of family farms (which, in 1985, pushed him to co-found FarmAid).Īs immortalized in the song, the Midwestern frozen-treat stop is a monument to good old-fashioned teenage boredom, wanton horniness, and greasy fast food consumed without any regard for calories or arterial disease. 1 in October 1982, when Mellencamp was still calling himself John Cougar. Naturally, the story included a mention of the singer’s most famous song, “Jack and Diane,” which hit No. In 2008, ABC’s Good Morning America followed John Mellencamp around his hometown of Seymour, Indiana. Read our previous pieces, about the Red Hot Chili Peppers song “Under the Bridge” and Toni Basil’s “Mickey.” This is the third entry in Vulture’s occasional series: Pop Culture Mysteries. All Rights Reserved.Photo: Jurgen Vollmer/ Redferns Ltd/Getty Images
Overall, the average cost of attending a UW System university for a typical residential undergraduate student living on a main four-year campus, including tuition, fees, and room and board, will rise 1.7 percent, or $273, for 2022-23. Rothman also told regents that he has requested a review of affordability that would compare UW System costs to those of peer institutions and assess the financial impact of a public higher education in Wisconsin on family incomes. "Moving forward, it is critical we make the investments necessary to enhance the quality of education that makes the University of Wisconsin System attractive to students while maintaining affordability for Wisconsin families," Rothman said. Resident undergraduate tuition hasn't changed since fiscal year 2013-14. The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a 2022-23 annual operating budget on Thursday that continues a tuition freeze for in-state undergraduates as recommended by System President Jay Rothman. UW System Regents Vote to Maintain Tuition Freeze for 2022-23
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