FEBRUARY 11, 1972
Cleaner Cafeteria Is Needed or...
"Let's take out just the chairs; we have to have somewhere to put our books!"
"No, let's just take out the tables; it's against the law to take out the chairs and have inadequate seating."
"Why do we have to take the tables or the chairs out; what is that going to prove?
"Why don't we just tell the students to keep it clean?"
Statements and questions of this nature have been passed around for a couple of weeks since Student Council was asked by Mr. Burk to do something about the garbage mess that is collected by the end of the day in the cafeteria.
Ideas have been discussed, but to this day the cafeteria still looks like a garbage dump. But who's fault is it? Can it be blamed on one particular person or group of people? We don't think so. All students are guilty of the mess, and all students are going to have to help keep it clean.
We really feel sorry for the boys in seventh period PAR who, everyday, are asked to return the lunch trays that are left on the tables and pick up the garbage on the floor. Why should these boys have to clean up everyone else's mess?
If you are in PAR ninth period when the janitors start sweeping the floor, you'll realize what a mess it is. The janitors usually collect about five or six large piles of milk cartons, wrappers, lunch bags, and other miscellaneous garbage.
If one has to go as far as taking the tables and chairs out of the cafeteria to make the students sit with the garbage they throw on the floor, we might as well be back in kindergarten where the teacher would have a student pass the garbage can around the room for everyone to throw in their garbage.
Let's keep the cafeteria cleaner. We don't want to have to sit on the floor, and we're sure you don't either.