When you drove to school this morning, you may have noticed something odd, but hardly surprising.
Banners, flyers and even stands for the recently ended Frontier Fiesta are still in prominent view all over campus. A huge banner near the corner of Cullen and Elgin streets is still blowing carelessly in the wind, inviting everyone out to a celebration that happened this past weekend.
Over at Frontier Fiesta Field, Entrance 1 at Calhoun, the many mock halls and buildings are still standing, seemingly ready for action like a recently initiated widow at a singles' bar. Why, we could have Frontier Fiesta all over again this weekend!
While complaining about lack of cleanup a couple of days after a big party may seem a bit nitpicky, past experiences are what cry out for commentary on this issue.
At the end of last year's Frontier Fiesta, the setups and buildings stayed in place for months, coming down at the rate of maybe one every two weeks during an extremely fast period.
Carelessness, laziness and irresponsibility are the only excuses for this kind of scattershot clean-up job. Any other event on campus gets the third degree if everything is not spic-and-span a few hours after the event takes place.
Maybe Frontier Fiesta will have its act cleaned up earlier this year because of all the construction. Then again, maybe that will only make a bigger mess of things.
Either way, one simple phrase can help it out: clean-up committee.
If the organizations behind all the planning and building and decorating can do such a bang-up job creating Fiesta City, why can't they put the same amount of work into taking it all down?
Mom's first rule was always to clean up after yourself when you make a mess.