Our Voice

With the end of the school year quickly approaching, students find themselves preparing for housing checkouts. Moving in during the fall semester and moving out at the end of the spring semester becomes a very familiar cycle with the completion of one’s college career.

However, the accumulation of additional items during the entire academic year causes the move out process, for many students, to be an overwhelming factor that competes with final exams.

As a solution to a high stress time period, the motto, ‘Out of sight, out of mind,’ is often adopted. Hence, students discard any of the items that they feel they no longer need or simply do not want to haul during the moving process.

Many of the items being discarded, for whatever the reason, are in completely good shape; however, they are discarded in the roll off trash dumpsters located in the front of university housing.

During rough times for our nation, both economically and environmentally, The Colonnade encourages alternative methods of discarding an over accumulation of personal items.

Donating items to local thrift stores such as The Salvation Army is a great way to give to those in need. Accepting everything from clothing to furniture and even books, The Salvation Army is located at 420 South Wilkinson Street, just a short distance from campus.

Also, many items found during packing may qualify as recyclables. Glass, aluminum cans, empty aerosol cans, newspapers, magazines and plastics which even include empty laundry detergent bottles and soda bottles are all considered recyclable items. Collecting these items and getting them to a recycling center is a more environmentally friendly way to discard unneeded items.

The last alternative method, which may help resolve the over accumulation and trashing of items, includes taking seasonal items home when not needed. When warm weather arrives take winter clothes home and vice versa.

With about a week of class and a week of exams left, there is plenty of time to decide which alternative method suites you.

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Apr 24 2009. Filed under Our Voice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry