The Student Environmental Alliance is kicking off a new campaign against littering. The campaign is still being worked out but will probably feature a pledge by students to pick up one piece of trash every day and a more concerted collective effort to pick up trash.
Senior Melissa Farmer, a student active in the SEA, explained, "We are going to do an 'adopt a part of campus'- for clubs or such that want to.
"This way someone concerned [with] litter can pledge to pick up trash in that part of campus they have adopted. We want to get more recycling bins on campus. Get the Cove, dining hall and catering to do recycling as well. [A fun fact is that the Cove does not really recycle.]
"Hopefully people will find the other pledge important enough to pick up one piece of trash and then tell someone else to pick up a piece and so on, passing [it] down the line."
Many students feel strongly about littering. One anonymous freshman said, "Littering is a bad thing and should never be done!"
Sophomore Andrew Cowles describes littering by saying with some exaggeration, "It's a problem that all people face. The threat of litter taking over the world has plagued man for centuries. The campus itself is on the whole clean. Yet one day the college could be overrun with litter, kind of like Kent right now, but somehow, if possible, dirtier.
Freshman Michelle Disney remarked poetically, "Litter is the kaleidescope of man's laziness."
Sophomore Heidi Atwood joins many students in wondering why anyone should feel the need to litter, saying, "Students should take the effort to find a trash can," adding sarcastically, " It's hard to believe, but there are several of them strategically placed across campus"
Senior Jordan Yelinek expressed similar sentiments, saying, "Well I think that littering is a pretty poor way to treat the environment. How hard can it be to take that piece of trash just a few feet to a garbage can?"
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