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...Wall said that the new $30-per-ton charge is still less than the $100-per-ton that the University now pays for trash collection...
Foul weather delayed the day-long anti-trash campaign by 24 hours, but as the sun came out yesterday so did about 2700 residents of 30 communities...
...should point out that a similar door-drop battle was fought last fall in the Yard. The superintendent's office imposed a total ban on all materials not subscibed to or requested by students, saying the level of trash in the halls was too great. Student outcry against the ban persuaded the College to install baskets on all student doors to hold door-drop materials and keep them off the floor. So far this seems to be an intelligent, practical cost-effective compromise that makes superintendents and student distributors happy. Before this compromise was arrived at, however, student publications such...
...when baskets are installed on student doors, as in the Yard, the amount of extra clean-up required should be minimal indeed. If Kirkland, which forbids door-dropping even though it also has baskets on its doors, still has a trash problem, then perhaps additional remedies need to be sought...
...simple as asking the resident students to be more considerate of those who clean up after them, or increasing the number of trash cans accessible to students, or encouraging PBH's newsprint recycling program (begun last year) to do their valuable work in all the houses and with greater frequency...