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Excessive mowing on SIUC campus?

Daily I hear complaints about the election, low turnout at football games or the uncoordinated USG being the main buzz around campus. Why, then, do I seem to be the only one worked up over a little grass?

The yard and maintenance people around here do their job well - perhaps too well. When walking to class, I struggle around mud pockets left by 1/2-ton lawnmowers going over the same area 3 to 4 times a day. This causes me great stress - when the rain gets going, my pants are muddy and ruined. There is no need for excessive mowing. Just today, I was burdened by the sound of five lawn mowers going at once over a very small area of grass. Passing someone on the way to class is not possible without tiptoes and struggle. Also, most of the "lawn mowing" I see is to blow away leaves.

Never once have I seen someone with a rake around here. Adding toxic chemicals and waste to the campus by loud, dirty oil and gas mowers is not the way to make campus seem clean. Pick up a rake - the lawn, soil and environment will be surprisingly happy and probably not look as sickly. I'm seriously displeased with the eyesore the lawn people have created. When I walk to class, all I see is dirt and filth that has been kicked up by students with crappy jobs who have to mow the lawn in excess to earn a mediocre wage for an hour of work. With rakes, students could earn more, perhaps with the money saved on maintenance and gas of the tractor mower cages.

Elizabeth Klaproth
sophmore, radio-television

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