by Amber Scales, Student Reporter
Lately, there has been a movement that is getting the student body to help clean up the university’s football stands after games.
The campaign to clean up the football stadium was started when a club posted on Facebook after a clean-up and then tagged other clubs to do the same after the next game. They are calling this “Trash Tag.”
Chloe Nutley and Michelle Willson had the idea together.
“We didn’t really ask anyone for permission or anything, we just sort of decided we wanted to help out whoever cleaned up the stands after the games,” Nutley said.
The two girls decided to get the ball rolling. They got the group that they are both involved in, the Gay-Straight Alliance, to help. Then, they asked CORE to join.
“It was super easy and fun,” Nutley said.
Since the first Trash Tag, two other groups have participated: the Fine Arts department and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. For the homecoming game, the Wesley House, the Baptist Collegiate Ministries, and the FCA took over the cleanup.
Sara Houchin is a resident at the Wesley house, and she also attends the BCM. She participated in the Trash Tag.
“I think it’s important because it shows that we care about our school, and we appreciate the work that our janitors do and [we] want to do our part and help them out,” she said. “I think my favorite part was at first, I thought, ‘This is a lot.’ But once we started, kids that weren’t necessarily in the organizations were helping out, and it was finished pretty quickly with everyone working together.”
“It would be great if, by the end of the season, all of the organizations on campus have had the opportunity to do their part, and it would be great to continue this for other sports and campus events as well,” Houchin said. “Hopefully we can create a habit so we don’t need to tag anyone, we just automatically clean up and take care of our school.”
Nutley and Willson hope to continue Trash Tag through basketball season.
“We would like to have a presence at other sporting events as well,” Nutley said. “We just wanted to start small to make sure it was something people would participate in.”