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Tuesday, October 16, 2012 • Volume 117, Issue 37
NO TRASH LEFT BEHIND Carlotta Inmates crucial to cost-effective cleanup
And that’s only for what’s outWhen Louisianans wake up Sunday morning after an LSU home side the walls of Tiger Stadium. Overall, Fellner said the outfootball game, there is one thing they door cleanup costs about $40,000 for can be sure of. The sun will rise in the east, each home game, adding up to more than $300,000 for illuminating the the 2012 football blanket of litter lyBen Wallace season. ing in the wake of Senior Contributing Writer But that numthe tailgating explosion that rocked the University’s ber only covers Facility Services’ campus the day before. end of the deal. And come Monday morning, “I have no idea what the gamebesides a stray plastic cup or a beer day [cleanup] costs really are,” bottle hidden in the bushes here and Fellner said, when taking into conthere, little evidence will remain of sideration several other University the state’s grandest weekend she- contracts and inner-stadium mop-up bang. duties. “We have to make it look like One key piece to the cleanup this never happened,” said Mainte- puzzle is prison inmate participanance Superintendent Hank Taylor. tion, since without it, Fellner said he Taylor helps oversee the clean- has “no idea” how the job would get up of the University’s roughly 1,000- done. On any given Sunday, inmates acre campus along with a 150-troop comprise about half of the cleanup squadron. “It’s like an army going into work force, with the rest split bebattle,” said Assistant Director of tween University employees and Landscape Services Fred Fellner, de- contracted laborers, all under the tailing the coordination of multiple leadership of Grounds Manager crews among different shifts from Vince Patterozzi. For example, following SaturThursday until Monday during home day’s South Carolina game, 27 infootball weekends. Facility Services brings in six mates came from Dixon Correctionrear-loading dump trucks on contract al Institute and 45 from Elayn Hunt with The Recycling Foundation in Correctional Center, while FacilBaton Rouge to haul in the rubble ity Services contributed 43 employcollected from 3,000 32-gallon yel- ees to an additional 32 contracted low bins and 150 95-gallon roll away workers. bins, plus another 1,500 18-gallon TRASH, see page 15 recycling bins, Fellner said.
Gameday trash litters the Parade Ground on Sunday after LSU’s game against South Carolina in Tiger Stadium. BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS /
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CELEBRATION
Halloween party canceled Rachel Warren News and Entertainment Deputy Editor
Since the early 1970s, North Gate residents have celebrated Halloween on Carlotta Street, but this year, they’ll have to find another place to party. Clarke Cadzow, owner of Highland Coffees and member of the North Gate Merchants Association, said the group has paid for permits and cleanup for the celebration for the past four or five years. Cadzow said the Baton Rouge Police Department approached the Merchants Association several years ago to have it organize the event because the party had become too large to be considered a block party. All in all, insurance, police presence and street cleanup, among other things, cost the Merchants Association almost $5,000. He said the business owners involved decided to sell beer at the party to make up for the money they’d spent, but sales were only good for one year. After that, they began questioning whether they could afford to CARLOTTA, see page 15
DINING
Broken dishwasher results in plastic forks, tiny cups Issue should be resolved today Ben Wallace
Senior Contributing Writer
Triple-fisting and snapped plastic forks were each an indirect result of a broken dishwasher at The 5 on Monday, where students ate off Styrofoam plates and sipped from “airplane” cups to compensate for the dining hall’s broken megawasher. A new part is scheduled to arrive at 10 a.m. today, and LSU Dining will immediately repair the washer so the dining halls can
return to using china plates as soon as possible, said Resident District Manager David Heidke. In the meantime, some students struggled with the replacements. Civil engineering freshman Phillip DiBenedetto planted his clear plastic fork in one side of his waffle and began sawing with a knife. Almost immediately the fork snapped in half, leaving the spiked end stuck in the waffle, with the broken handle lying on the table. He and fellow civil engineering freshman Blake Elliott bursted into laughter, saying they hadn’t experienced any problems with the interim plates and utensils until then, unless it came to quenching their thirst. “It’s a pain having to get up
every three or four minutes to get some water,” DiBenedetto said, referring to the tiny plastic cups, much like the ones served on airplanes for mid-flight beverages. Computer science junior Travona Lewis engineered a unique solution to the cup issue — triplefisting. “I had to make two trips,” Lewis said, noting the Styrofoam plates and plastic cups were mostly just a surprise. “The food still tastes the same,” she added. The dishwasher does not operate like a typical at-home appliance, since it never stops running. Instead, dirty dishes go through the system DISHWASHER, see page 15
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A student’s plastic fork broke Monday after The 5’s dishwasher malfunctioned, forcing students to use Styrofoam and plastic dinnerware.