Southeastern NEWS

                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
                                           Public Information Office
                                           SLU 880, Hammond, LA 70402
                                           504/549-2341/fax 504-549-2061

                                           
    Date: 5/1/96
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple  

SLU VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH HAMMOND "TRASH BASH"
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University students, faculty and staff plan to
make a clean sweep of campus Friday and Saturday to help spruce up Hammond for the "Cleanest
City" competition.
     The campus clean up is being organized by the division of Student Affairs. Fraternities will
begin cleaning up areas around their houses at 1 p.m. Friday. At 2 p.m., volunteer trash bashers
will gather at the Student Union Park to form cleanup teams. After fanning out across campus to
retrieve any trash, the teams will return to the Student Union for refreshments.
     Southeastern physical plant personnel will be on hand to truck away trash and clean up
parking lots. Campus Dining personnel will "pitch in" to clean up areas around food service
buildings.
     On Saturday, students and staff from University Housing will "sweep" areas around
university residence halls from Wardline Apartments to Texas Avenue and General Pershing
Avenue to Sycamore Street. Enrollment Services volunteers will take care of clean up around
Alumni Field and the baseball stadium's parking lot.
     "With the involvement of student organizations as well as Southeastern personnel, we
certainly will do our part to insure that the city of Hammond clinches this award," said President
Sally Clausen. "I am very proud of our students' immediate willingness to join the city in this
event."
     Staff members coordinating the campus clean sweep are Jackie Dale Thomas, Milas Love,
Paul Butler, Regis Bergeron, Steve Leon and Kelly Wells.

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