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Walking through the foyer during lunch, one notices the floor is no longer a mass of bodies fighting over pop tarts. Students are not huddled in corners struggling to get enough air to breathe. The refugee camp look is gone.
For now. Enjoy it while you can.
Open campus is by no means here to stay. Remember, the cleanliness of campus will be evaluated weekly. Beware, as you flee from campus for the smog-choked drive-through lanes of McDonald’s if trash once again returns to the periphery of campus, we will be re-packed like sardines into the foyer.
In order to keep open campus, there are two things the student body needs to do:
A. Pick up after themselves.
B. Stay off the neighbors’ lawns.
Let’s take a look at the basics of cleanliness. To prevent food from spoiling, it is wrapped. When students eat food, they are left with the wrappers. Students then face two options. One is to eat the wrapping, but with carcinogenic dioxins in chlorine-bleached paper, the safer, more practical approach is to dispose of trash in garbage cans.
FHS is located in a residential district. That means there are houses. People live in these houses. They are our neighbors. They only want to mow their lawns, walk their dogs and live their lives in peace or try to.
In order to give peace a chance, students must remember to stand on sidewalks not on lawns or in flower gardens. People get upset when their precious tulips are trampled. The typical response from abused tulip owners is anger. Angry neighbors make angry phone calls that will close campus.
Standing on the sidewalk will not only keep campus open. It will prevent students’ shoes from getting caked with mud once the snow melts.
The trash problem is what closed campus in the first place. Since then, garbage cans have been placed in key areas to assist students with litter disposal. FHS has even contracted with the city to empty those garbage cans to prevent trash overflows. If these garbage cans are full, the solution is simple. Throw trash away in your next class. This will require attending class, but it’s better than a closed campus. So come on, gang. Let’s all pitch in and remember to:
• Stand on the sidewalks.
• Throw trash in garbage cans, not in the street or on a lawn.
• If you need to spit anything, spit it in the street or in a storm drain.
• For situations not covered here, simply ask yourself, “Would I get suspended for doing it in class?” If the answer is yes, don’t do it.
The bodies that littered the foyer are gone. These simple steps will keep them from reappearing. There is now plenty of room for everyone to eat lunch, whether in the cafeteria, foyer or street corner.
Let’s keep it that way.
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