Letter to the editor:
Box maniaBox mania
Editor:Well, we see once again what wonderful, thoughtful,
responsible,
civic-minded persons attend this school. What I really want to
say is too
tangential, albeit relevant in explaining the serious defect in
the
philosophy of many on campus. However, that is another
story.
For now, I will stick to the problem and the – well, lets see, a
nice
word would be – hypocritical actions of whoever had the audacity
to bring
onto the campus those stupid little boxes. You know the ones –
there were
thousands of them everywhere on Thursday. Deposited by the
conscientious
students who care at UCLA as a reminder of their – well,
caring.
I understand that the "boxes" came from off campus, created by
some
advertising giant, yet they were accepted by someone at UCLA as
worthy of
something students might want. Want. Yeah, whatever it is inside
those damn
boxes was in such demand that some people were taking four or
five of them
and scooping out the contents and disposing of the boxes
wherever they
happened to be at that moment (and I mean wherever.)
The person who was responsible for this action should have been
the
person to go out and clean up those boxes. The person who was
responsible
should donate untold dollars to environmental causes. The person
who
permitted the boxes on campus was not responsible to begin
with!
There are others – namely the students. If you were one of them,
I hope
you never ask for another dollar for a tree, the ocean or any
environmental
cause. They are such moronic imbeciles – everyone who
participated in "Drop
the Boxes Everywhere Day!"
And yes, I am sure some very staunch environmentalists and
others didn’t
like the mess they saw, but this campus has some notoriety for
activism.
Well, you were all sure active in dropping boxes. Wasting paper
products,
making an absolute mess and being ignorant are only the most
specific of
problems plaguing the campus. And as for the rebuttal one might
boast, that
the boxes are recycled and could be again, the only response to
this is
disgust. Plain ignorant and mindless verbiage.
Perhaps the time to save the planet is before we destroy it, not
while
we destroy it, and then maybe we won’t need to recycle
everything. All this
underlies major flaws in other issues but we’ll leave them alone
as I
promised to end this letter with a statement to all those
greedy, selfish,
hypocritical persons depositing those boxes haphazardly around
the campus:
It is not the responsibility of others to clean up your every
mess. It is
your responsibility to act responsibly.Frank Chartrand
Fifth-year
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