Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor:
Everyone who gathered in the quad last Friday morning is lucky the University Web cam is on the southern side of Brookings looking west. Had it been pointed north towards the amphitheater, anyone on the interwebs could have seen a mass of college students litter their own quad. Why should our families and (more importantly) ourselves pay good money for an education and then litter our own campus? Has anyone else noticed the poor ability for some of our peers to pick up after ourselves in public (bedroom habits excluded)? Because somebody else will pick it up? We’re lucky that a few kind people stayed and cleaned up the beer cans, twinky wrappers and muffin cups left behind. Sure everyone might have been blitzed out of their minds, but it’s strange to think that nothing goes on in a person’s head when they drop a piece of trash from their dangling arm hoping the group they’re socializing with won’t notice (no matter where you are, it would be silly to think you aren’t aware when your trash disappears too-it’s not like a trash fairy took care of it for you).
And if you purposefully and successfully stealth drop your garbage, what then? You’ve succeeded in being cool enough to litter without anyone noticing? Are you getting your tuition’s worth?
Anyway, thanks for bearing with my venting, but it disappoints me that we can’t do basic, 3rd grade stuff as (mostly) adult college students. Washington University’s environmental departments are world-renowned! Let’s give them something to smile about on campus as they improve the world around us too. Recycle Mania is going on, Earth Day was on Sunday and odds are you will pass a recycling bin or trash can en route to your destination wherever you are on campus.
It’s not that hard to hold on to a small bit of trash for those few feet of walking until you reach the proper bin.
Good luck on finals, everyone-again, I’m not upset, but disappointed; where I come from, we learned at a young age how easy it is to not litter as opposed to the other way around. Please take a moment to be considerate to your school, your peers, and the planet with the little effort it takes to recycle or throw away your trash (and don’t forget to celebrate the beauty around you).
Happy post plant and earth day!
-David Schainker
Class of 2008
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