Trashing trash

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Hey, remember that time you complained about how Philly is so dirty and then threw your beer can on your neighbor’s lawn two days later while stumbling back home?

Yeah, we know who you are.

Well now’s your chance to redeem yourself. Philly Spring Cleanup day is tomorrow, Sat. April 10. In its third-year run, the city initiative brings together volunteers to spiff up Philadelphia’s blocks. Working as a trash monster combo, Temple’s Students for Environmental Action, Student Peace Alliance, Project EDU, Temple Community Garden and Sociology Undergraduate Majors and Minors Association will be volunteering tomorrow between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and will be meeting at the Bell Tower. If you have any interest, e-mail James at tua50891@temple.edu. For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page.

Temple Student Government is also encouraging students to volunteer at the Stenton Park Recreation Center (17th and Courtland streets), the Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation Center (22nd Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue) and the McVeigh Recreation Center, located in Kensington. Visit the Philly Spring Cleanup Web site to sign up for these locations.

Don’t act like you’re not capable of rolling out of bed and walking a few blocks to one of these sites. And, if you’re not busy and still complain about trash, shame on you. Yep, we said it: shame on you!

Setting the TSG tickets straight

In today’s March 30 issue of The Temple News, the candidates’ names’ and respective tickets beneath the photos of two Temple Student Government tickets are incorrect. The Temple News apologizes for this error. The tickets are: Break Thru TU: Damon Williams, Natalie Ramos-Castillo, Alex Shelow, Owls United: Maggie Thompson, Malcolm Kenyatta, Chanee Lay, TU360: Jessica Reed, Jamira Burley and Mark Fabbi. The captions to the photos accompanying “TSG candidates eagerly await April 6 elections” in today’s issue should read as follows:

Break Thru TU (left to right): Damon Williams, Natalie Ramos-Castillo, Alex Shelow

Owls United (left to right): Maggie Thompson, Malcolm Kenyatta, Chanee Lay

The caption for TU360 was correct and is as follows:

TU360 (left to right): Jessica Reed, Jamira Burley and Mark Fabbi