Tailgate Revelers Trash Campus
In recent months with the addition of the new TATE center and the increase in recycling programs on campus, The University of Georgia has been proudly promoting their efforts at “greening” up the well known southern party school. This weeks press however completely wipes away any good they may have come of those efforts unfortunately.
As an avid supporter of the BullDawg nation at the University of Georgia it pains me to see my beautiful campus trashed by unthinking and apparently uncaring tail-gating fans. I was unable to attend the home opener against South Carolina, so I was shocked to see the photos on the front cover of the Red & Black when I got back to campus this week. Is there ever a better time to say WTF!!!! 70 TONS of trash was removed!
Not only do fans trash the campus, the University then spends around $44,000 for EVERY home game to clean up afterward. Ridiculous. With every state-run institution suffering mightily from slashed budgets it is inconceivable that this kind of money should be spent because football fans can’t clean up after themselves.
Now that the story has been picked up and displayed prominently on the front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, maybe UGA fans will put a little more thought into how hard they party, and what kind of legacy they want to leave behind.
The University was even chided by popular Athens publication Flagpole about their trashy habits saying “it’s too bad the UGA Athletic Association has had to be shamed into providing recycling opportunities by the student volunteers who started the Gameday Recycling program on fall Saturdays, but hey: whatever works.” Ben Emanuel, pg. 5 – in regards to efforts by the UGA Ecology Club.
Want to keep giving UGA some bad press? Keep on throwing your trash on the ground. If not then remember this basic axiom – your mama don’t live here, clean up after yourself!
Photo Credit: Tom Ritch, AJC
