We have a rat. No, I’m not talking about the person who sent the anonymous letter regarding the ex-interim dean of Fain Fine Arts College. We have rats!
Take a look around the College of Fine Arts and scattered like little land mines are rat droppings.
Sticking to the bottom of shoes like gum, these feces pieces are an example of the dirt and grime students consider normal around campus.
It all comes down to the same issue of keeping the campus clean. I wrote an article last semester dealing with the problem and it seems as if it was ignored or misunderstood by those associated with MSU.
The campus needs a clean up. The first thing prospective students take in when coming to the campus is the visual aspect of the school. Seeing rat droppings is not going to make enrollment shoot through the roof.
For instance, the incident at Sundance Apartment’s will not seal the deal on a prospective student either. Trash cans were empty, yet students decided to keep piling trash on the ground. To their credit, the doors on the dumpster were closed, or maybe they didn’t have proper training as a kid sliding the door of a dumpster open or flipping up a lid.
Skipping up the chain of command is not always a good idea, but in the situation of campus clean up, it was necessary.
I notified University President Jesse Rogers of the situation, and he immediately took action.
Rogers took the initiative to walk around campus picking up various items of liter. Such as: Chicken Express boxes, paper cups and dirty diapers.
“We must have a plan to call littering to the campus’ attention,” Rogers said in an email.
Now, Rogers plans on adding this topic to his staff agenda and possibly bringing it up to student government in the near future.
If MSU wants to look good public relations world, the school as a whole has to take charge. We need to come together and show our university we really do care.
Recently a resident from Killingsworth tweeted about how dirty the public bathrooms were on her floor. After that, the residents of the floor were scrutinized for taking public action and not keeping it hidden and going to their resident advisor about it. The RA uses the same bathrooms, and up until the tweet, she had not reported anything about how dirty the bathrooms were.
Without the student taking charge and saying something, the bathrooms would have remained dirty until the janitors finally decided to clean it.
The students, faculty and staff can’t keep expecting people to do everything for them.
The president should not have to take time out of his day to pick up trash. It would be more beneficial to the school if Rogers was able to get bigger things done rather than having to pick up after us like we are 7-years-old.
Quit being lazy. Just take the extra five minutes out of your day to not just keep Texas beautiful, but your campus as well.
