It seems pretty obvious: the bigger the party, the tougher the cleanup, the more trash cans that will be needed. However, this logic has long been absent at the heavily-trafficked tailgating strip on Lindsey St. next to the practice field - until this season that is.
Rick Greer, University of Oklahoma alumni, has held a tailgate at the intersection of Lyndsey and Jenkins for six years now. He says he was constantly complaining to police when they walked by about the lack of garbage cans being made available for tailgaters on Lyndsey. However, this was definitely not one of their duties.
Finally, the University responded by placing over 50 garbage cans along both Lyndsey and Jenkins, which by all accounts has made cleaning up a much easier affair for all involved.
Addison Roberts, zoology senior, has been in charge of his father's tailgate for the last five years and says he too had noticed that before this season it had always been difficult to find a spot for all the trash his tailgate would accumulate.
"I would never really think about it when I was setting up the tailgate, but after the game was over it such a pain to find one of the ten trash cans," Roberts said. "I actual called it the hike because all of the garbage cans were full and sometimes I would have to walk to the dorms just to find an empty one." Roberts said that many people, failing to find an available garbage can, would just drop their trash in the grass after packing up their belongings.
This season though, the trash cans are impossible to miss; they almost form a barrier along tailgate row on Lyndsey. Although they mean a little more work for the already overworked event staff, it surely looks better than having trash strewn about the grass.
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