It’s gray, sticky, often mispronounced and one of the greatest threats to campus beauty, according to Sarah Surak, SGA Campus Beautification committee chair.
Duct tape from the thousands of fliers on UT’s campus is the focus of a new Campus Beautification project and needs to be addressed, Surak said.
“Most groups on campus put up fliers but forget or don’t take them down,” Surak said. “The fliers will eventually wear away, but the duct tape left over is a big problem. We are trying to find ways to avoid that mess left on our buildings and sidewalks.”
Surak said the committee will try to establish more flier boards or assigned flier locations on campus at its meeting tonight at 6 p.m. She said it would benefit student groups to use these assigned information areas.
“Students know to look at those boards anyway,” Surak said. “We will just have to find more areas where these boards can be beneficial. That should have some impact on the fliering on campus.”
The new project is one of the committee’s first of the semester, and Surak said she hopes to have more help with the group’s remaining activities.
“Generally, we have about 18 people on our committee,” Surak said. “That’s not many people to be representing the voice of the entire campus. Campus Beautification is open to any interested student, and we are always looking for new ideas.
“We would love for more students to participate.”
Surak also said while construction projects have made the creation of an aesthetically pleasing campus more difficult, students should appreciate the finer parts of UT.
“There are some really beautiful parts of our campus, like Circle Park, that are underutilized,” Surak said. “Students need to remember that. They also need to know if they have ideas for campus beautification, we can help.”
A project already in planning is a campus-wide trash clean-up on April 12.
The SGA Campus Beautification committee is part of Student Services and is open to all students. Meetings are held every other Tuesday in the University Center.
