Here's something else frustrating: the sheer, overwhelming amount of trash that this "tailgating" affair generates.
Walking on campus has never been such a disgusting experience as it was last Saturday night after the LSU game, and Sunday morning/early afternoon. Acre after acre of North Campus lawn was covered with a dense layer of styrofoam cups, beer cans, broken beer bottles, plastic utensils, and a large miscellany of other crap. Much of it issued from the gaping mouth of tipped recycling bins. Broken glass obtained throughout many parts of sidewalks and concrete steps. And through it all, far and close, the nauseating stench of alcohol and vomit permeated one's nostrils.
Words cannot express the sympathy I feel for the physical plant/maintenance crews who worked feverishly through Sunday to restore campus to some kind of presentability by Monday morning. It is very shameful sometimes to be a student, to have any association with this awful crap by way of generalisation.
Whats frustrating is the thousands of people who just walk in the middle of the streets drunk all day right in front of moving cars. What they dont realize is if they get hit THEY get the ticket not the driver. The County Police needs to start cracking down on this.
Spring Break
anonymous871
posted 10/09/04 @ 2:52 AM EST
Walking on campus has never been such a disgusting experience as it was last Saturday night after the LSU game, and Sunday morning/early afternoon. Acre after acre of North Campus lawn was covered with a dense layer of styrofoam cups, beer cans, broken beer bottles, plastic utensils, and a large miscellany of other crap. Much of it issued from the gaping mouth of tipped recycling bins. Broken glass obtained throughout many parts of sidewalks and concrete steps. And through it all, far and close, the nauseating stench of alcohol and vomit permeated one's nostrils.
Words cannot express the sympathy I feel for the physical plant/maintenance crews who worked feverishly through Sunday to restore campus to some kind of presentability by Monday morning. It is very shameful sometimes to be a student, to have any association with this awful crap by way of generalisation.
Alex Balashov, Student
Athens