Word: littering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reidsville klavern of North Carolina's Ku Klux Klan thought it had come up with a tidy answer: it offered to join the state's Adopt-a-Highway program, under which 5,000 civic and social organizations have agreed to keep 10,000 miles of state highways clear of litter. At least four times a year, the Klansmen would exchange their white robes for orange vests and pick up trash along three miles of U.S. 158, east of Reidsville. In return, a sign noting their good deeds would be erected along the highway...
Hastings says that the policy is just temporary, until he can get wire baskets installed on the North House doors. In the case of the Yard, this has proved to be a reasonable compromise toward keeping litter separate from reading matter...
...wire baskets will solve the problem, why don't the house masters simply install them? The litter problem, if one really exists, has been around for years. The halls will endure for the few weeks necessary to install the baskets. For that matter, if litter is such a problem, why weren't they installed over the summer? Kirkland already has such baskets--why do they need a ban on door drops...
...compromise that makes superintendents and student distributors happy. Before this compromise was arrived at, however, student publications such as The Independent were forced to circumvent the new rules by offering free subscriptions to all who wanted them. While technically obeying the ban, student publications door-dropped anyway, and the litter problem went unsolved. It was far better to have the publications put in baskets than carry on the bizarre and exhausting charade of "free subscriptions." I hope we do not have to go through that again...
...wind dries them, and then they inflate like lungs and rise on the desert air. They come out of the sea like Portuguese men-of-war and then, amphibious, as if in some Darwinian drama, sail off to litter another of the earth's last emptinesses. Reverse Darwin, really: devolution, a flight of death forms...