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Letter to the editor:

Box maniaBox mania

Editor:Well, we see once again what wonderful, thoughtful, responsible,

civic-minded persons attend this school. What I really want to say is too

tangential, albeit relevant in explaining the serious defect in the

philosophy of many on campus. However, that is another story.

For now, I will stick to the problem and the - well, lets see, a nice

word would be - hypocritical actions of whoever had the audacity to bring

onto the campus those stupid little boxes. You know the ones - there were

thousands of them everywhere on Thursday. Deposited by the conscientious

students who care at UCLA as a reminder of their - well, caring.

I understand that the "boxes" came from off campus, created by some

advertising giant, yet they were accepted by someone at UCLA as worthy of

something students might want. Want. Yeah, whatever it is inside those damn

boxes was in such demand that some people were taking four or five of them

and scooping out the contents and disposing of the boxes wherever they

happened to be at that moment (and I mean wherever.)

The person who was responsible for this action should have been the

person to go out and clean up those boxes. The person who was responsible

should donate untold dollars to environmental causes. The person who

permitted the boxes on campus was not responsible to begin with!

There are others - namely the students. If you were one of them, I hope

you never ask for another dollar for a tree, the ocean or any environmental

cause. They are such moronic imbeciles - everyone who participated in "Drop

the Boxes Everywhere Day!"

And yes, I am sure some very staunch environmentalists and others didn't

like the mess they saw, but this campus has some notoriety for activism.

Well, you were all sure active in dropping boxes. Wasting paper products,

making an absolute mess and being ignorant are only the most specific of

problems plaguing the campus. And as for the rebuttal one might boast, that

the boxes are recycled and could be again, the only response to this is

disgust. Plain ignorant and mindless verbiage.

Perhaps the time to save the planet is before we destroy it, not while

we destroy it, and then maybe we won't need to recycle everything. All this

underlies major flaws in other issues but we'll leave them alone as I

promised to end this letter with a statement to all those greedy, selfish,

hypocritical persons depositing those boxes haphazardly around the campus:

It is not the responsibility of others to clean up your every mess. It is

your responsibility to act responsibly.Frank Chartrand

Fifth-year

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