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Students clean up campus
Mariya Kisina
Issue date: 6/19/06 Section: News
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Students and staff walked around campus with garbage bags and trash pickers as they cleaned up the De Anza College campus for Campus Pride Day, June 15.
"It's mostly cigarette butts," said Agnes Kosiorek, a Cal Poly University graphic communications major. She picked up trash near the Student Services building.
She said she was most disappointed when she saw paper, plastic and cigarette butts near trash cans and recycling bins.
Kosiorek said she wondered whether students littered around campus because De Anza is a community college and people pay less for tuition.
There is even trash in the parking lots.
"I don't remember there being trash in the parking structure at Cal Poly," she said.
The Academic Senate's new Environmental Sustainability Subcommittee sponsored the event in which about 20 students participated.
She said that maybe people litter because they hate the world.
"If you have a continuously bad life, you might think, why should I do something for someone else?" she said.
De Anza sophomore and economics major Rachel Sun and College Advantage student Jeremy Mekdhanarash said they heard about Campus Pride Day from their professor and decided to participate for fun. They picked up trash in the main quad and around the Student Services building.
Lynn Raffaelli, a member of the Academic Senate subcommittee and English professor, said there were less participants compared to other years because the event had been planned only a week in advance and there was no time to advertise.
"I wanted to do the event because it brought people together and it was a good thing to do for the campus," said Raffaelli.
One professor hoped that the cleanup would inspire other students not to litter.
"I think [the cleanup] would raise awareness," said economics professor Steve Zill.
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