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 * Husson University Holds Campus-Wide Clean Up **



By: Chris Bouchard bouchardc@students.nescom.edu

Husson University just held an all-day campus cleaning event for Earth Day. Several professional looking posters advertising the event have been posted around campus.

There were two time slots for the clean-up, according to the posters. The first was from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. The second was from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. “We have six people signed up for the first time slot,” said Jun Ye, who is in charge of signing students up for this event.

 A close inspection of the sign-up sheet showed that nobody was signed up for the second time slot.

“We’d like to have more people, at least somewhere around ten or twenty,” concluded Ye.

Ye delivered these statements around 10:45 am, 15 minutes after the first wave of cleanups had already started.

Fortunately, as time passed, several more students had signed up for the event.

“My understanding is that it [The Campus-Wide Clean Up] has been done here for a number of years,” said Anne Schmidt, “it’s my first year here, so I figure that it would be best to keep the tradition going.”

Schmidt is from the Student Activities office, and played a big part in putting this event together. [[image:DSC_0013e.jpg align="right" caption="An area once littered with cigarette butts is now clean. [Photo courtesy of Elyza Peterson"]]  “Students can do this to get some community service hours,” continued Schmidt, “or just out of the kindness of their own hearts. There’s also a drawing being held for tickets to a Red Sox game. To get entered in the drawing, all students need to do is come back and show that they’ve been cleaning up.”  [[image:DSC_0014e.jpg align="left" caption="Student throwing away trash. Photo courtesy of Elyza Peterson"]] By 1:00 pm several students could be seen wearing black gloves, carrying trash bags and picking up trash. Oddly enough, cigarette butts took up a huge percentage of the litter on campus.

“My RA told me to do it, so I did it,” says Nicholas Martin, “Our whole floor [7 th floor Hart] has to clean up today.”  The campus was noticeably cleaner by 2:00 pm, and the Campus Clean-Up proved to be a success.  “I’d like for this to be an even bigger event next year,” concludes Schmidt. “Maybe we could have a cookout afterward. It’s just hard to get a lot of people involved when everyone here has a busy schedule filled with classes.”