Subject: UGA Seeks Community Cooperation to Manage Game Day TrashIt looks like the University got the message that garbage cans and toilets were in short supply on North Campus. Now the fans need to do our part.
From: ugatickets@sports.uga.edu
Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 3:23 pm
Athens, Ga. - "If you bring it in, please take it out." That's the mantra the University of Georgia is asking its football fans to adopt in an effort to control the amount of trash littering campus on a football Saturday. And if they can't take it out, at least bag it and place it in a trash receptacle or dumpster.
"I believe the students, alumni and fans who attend UGA football games do love and respect this beautiful campus," said UGA President Michael F. Adams. "And I fully expect that they will do their part to clean up after themselves and to ensure that others around them do the same."
The university plans to distribute 12,000 trash bags in parking lots and around campus this Saturday before the Georgia Bulldogs play host to the Arizona State Sun Devils in a 7 p.m. kickoff. Volunteers from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes will walk through tailgating areas distributing trash bags and encouraging tailgaters to bag their trash and deposit it in an appropriate receptacle. The number of disposable trash boxes on North Campus will be increased to 400 from the previous 250, and over the entire campus to 1,500 from the previous 1,200. Several large roll-off dumpsters will be placed strategically around campus for tailgaters to dispose of their bagged trash.
Additionally, the firm that contracts to clean the campus on Sundays following a football game - American Stadiums - will send crews on an initial sweep through North Campus during the first quarter of remaining games this season to pick up trash already collected and set aside by tailgaters.
The number of Port-a-Johns available on campus also will be increased, particularly in the North Campus area which has been problematic.
"Before people head to the game for kickoff, we hope they'll pick up around their tailgate area, bag the trash, and either place it in their vehicle to carry home or place it in one of our trash receptacles or dumpsters," said George Stafford, associate vice president for auxiliary and administrative services, who oversees game day operations outside Sanford Stadium itself. Fans should encourage those around them to do the same, he added. "It will take the community working together to accomplish this," he said. "People who profess to care about UGA should help take care of UGA."
September 23, 2009
UGA Asks Fans to Help Manage Gameday Trash
UGA released the statement below to season ticket holders this afternoon:
14 comments:
why should they ask? They should demand. It was flat out disgusting.
I asked the ole miss board about what they do at the grove and they said people go around and hand out trash bags to everyone and that they have poeple who cleanup the grove while the game goes on and as soon as its over. I am glad our university is finally getting smart and cleaning up while the game is going on, thats what needed to be done.
Dumpsters? Really?
Wow. What a novel idea. I can't believe nobody thought of that until now (note: Extreme sarcasm)
Good luck our fans are lazy. They Expect somebody else todo it.
if you bring it, you should take it away. Otherwise make tailgating only available in far off parking lots soit does not impact the campus. If you tried this in the 70s you would have received a ticket or been arrested.
I don't even see the need for the dumpsters myself, if you haul it in, haul it out.
People need entirely too much crap to have a good time anymore.
Colbert has put us on notice
http://www.shipbrook.com/onnotice/
Maybe I didnt read that correctly, because it seems like the university is taking affirmative steps in the right direction for once.
While there is no excuse for what North Campus looked like, there still were some:
-There arent enough trash cans and porta-potties. Well now there are more.
-We bag our trash, the hobos just rip the bags open looking for cans. Well now they will start picking up trash right when the game begins.
Good job university!
Am I crazy or is this (cleanup during the game) nothing new? When I attended UGA from 2002-2006, North Campus was spotless by Sunday morning, and I remember that cleanup crews were always out post game if not during the game. This is not a step forward, it a correction of a poor choice made somewhere in the past few years. Also, I know its supposed to be a learning environment, buy why did they stop allowing fans to use the restrooms in the basement of the main library? You never actually enter the library itself and it alleviated much of the port-o-potty traffic.
I hope someone picks up my soiled condom and the goo runs down their arm.
F*cking losers.
Gator Man, there's no need for a condom when you're yanking it in your trailer; the jean shorts around your ankles will catch it all.
Micheal Adams is truly Darth Varder.
Hiring people to come through after the game has started to pick up bagged trash...that was the only problem in the first place! Yet he blames the fans and acts like the big hero in this thing! Unreal.
"Throw in some extra Port-a-Johns too. That'll get 'em."
Andy:
Jean shorts? I thought that was what their sisters were for?
Re the poster above who said "we bag our trash"...and then you apparently just leave it on the ground, or at best beside a full can. You, my Dawg fan, are part of the problem. "your trash" didn't just show up at the tailgate area, you brought it in. You should be responsible for getting rid of it. Put it in your trunk, haul it back to where it came from. It is not UGA's responsibility to clean up after you.
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