While Carolyn Crist made a point in her “Gameday Etiquette,” column, she was lacking one major kindergarten lesson we all should have mastered: clean up your space.

Five-year-olds understand the concept, why can’t 18 to 24-year-olds get it? It’s not that difficult, when you make a mess, clean it up.

North Campus after tailgating is disgusting. The ground is covered with beer cans, broken glass, food, hot charcoal and smashed Styrofoam coolers. It is revolting.

If some of your friends did this on your lawn, would you like it? I would certainly hope not (but then again, if you thought it was appropriate to do it on campus, you might do it at home).

You should all be ashamed. What kind of people are you? You defile your respectable campus, and think that it’s OK because you were having a good time.

When fans from out of town and fans from the other team walk through, they should be seeing a beautiful campus and its students enjoying a fall Saturday, but instead they are greeted with ankle-deep trash and a stench that rivals that of East Campus.

What do you think happens to all of the beer cans that you threw on the ground? Do you think a trash fairy waves her magic wand and all of it goes away?

No. It took 30 people from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. to clean up just the space from the Arch to the Library. Six hours to clean up something that would have taken you 10 minutes to do as your buddy was wheeling your keg back to the car. And don’t think that there is even an excuse for being that disgusting.

There are hundreds of trash cans and bags on North Campus on a Saturday, not to even mention the countless recycling bins.

Use one of them!

I would ask you what your parents would do if they saw the mess you left, but since some of them are a part of the problem, I’ll ask you this: What would your kindergarten teacher do? She would put you in time out and take away your recess.

But since you’re an adult, you should just be ashamed.

Jordan Shoemaker
Junior, Athens
Art history

Stop the ‘blind hatred’ of quarterback Joe Cox

Mr. Tyler Estep needs to quit letting his blind hatred of Joe Cox get in the way of actual reporting. The Dogs recovered Cox’s fumble after the blind side hit only a Jedi could have sensed coming, and kicked the field goal that ended up winning the game. Sure, he wasn’t perfect, but throwing a pick six is nothing [Matthew] Stafford didn’t do on a regular basis. Mr. Estep and UGA fans as a whole need to step back from the Cox-hating and see his play for what it actually is. At the very least, The Red & Black sports reporters need to get simple facts right in stories they have two days to write.

Carter Scott
Senior, Suwanee
International business