UCLA fan doesn’t envy USC students
USC’s wide receiver Mike Williams said, “I honestly
feel that everyone at UCLA wishes they were at USC. Everybody here
today in baby blue wishes they were in our student
section.”
Yes, Mike Williams, yes. That is exactly how I felt when I was
sitting in the end zone wearing my baby blue UCLA shirt. Because I
have always wanted to go to USC, it has always been my dream to
wear red and yellow and root for the most fickle football dynasty
in college history. It has been my dream to sit in the Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum and absorb the tradition of Troy. Unfortunately,
I had to wear baby blue Saturday because for the past year I have
pondered, “What if I didn’t get in to UCLA?”
Mike Williams, my answer was the reality for thousands of people
at the Coliseum on Saturday: “I’d go to USC!”
Mike Williams, so focused on your precious football team, do you
realize that your Clowns of Troy lost to Western Michigan in
basketball over the weekend? Everybody in the student section
Saturday wishes they were in the student section at WMU. Let me ask
you this: Have you ever been to Pauley?
Scott Resnick Third-year, economics
Don’t litter if you care about campus
Every Thursday a disheartening thing happens on campus.
Newspapers filled with the dB Magazine and Sports Illustrated
inserts are nicely arranged in kiosks, only to be torn apart by
students. One after another, newspapers are picked up and inserts
are thrown to the ground. With hundreds of students raiding each
kiosk, the effect is a blanket of trash covering the ground, left
to be kicked, trod on, and ignored by students passing by.
Does anyone consider this a problem? Most agree that UCLA has a
beautiful campus, but what do we think of these piles of trash at
every kiosk? Should we just assume that such careless littering is
inevitable? Should we ignore it because we are busy with papers and
finals, or because others are hired to clean up our messes for us?
Hopefully not.
In one way or another, most people want to have a positive
impact on the world. That’s one of the big reasons so many of
us are here at UCLA ““ we want to make a difference. Well,
here’s our chance, and all it takes is for each of us to care
just a little bit.
The next time you grab a newspaper with inserts you don’t
want, just take them out and set them back in the kiosk, or carry
them to the nearest recycling bin (which is never very far) and
throw them away. It’s a simple lesson most of us learned when
we were little, and it applies to everything, be it newspaper
inserts, paper towels in our campus bathrooms or just trash in
general: Clean up after yourself.
This problem has a very simple solution. All it takes is a
moment’s consideration to ask yourself: Do I care enough
about this campus to walk the 10 feet to a recycle bin? Will I put
out the effort even if it doesn’t gain me recognition? Do I
really want to make a difference?
Jack Mefford Third-year, history