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Coming back to Hamline means removing oneself from the careful watch of parents’ common sense. The freedom and abundance of choices is at once liberating and restrictive; students lose authoritative motivation and are left to their own considerations and morals. Moving away to college means joining a year-long academic camp where everyone admittedly needs to be respectful of other people and their capacity to be annoyed.

Students, faculty, and visitors can agree with few reservations that Hamline is a well-mannered campus.
However, students of all ages appear to have a special affinity for booming stereos, abandoning bags of take-out (or other smelly things) in halls and stairways, and, worst of all, littering on the campus grounds.
It’s a shame, to be sure, that the refuse at the end of the weekend is not strewn-about Donne poems with mocha stains and worn Steinbeck novels lying in the bushes. Instead, a college-style weekend leaves the campus decorated with bottles and Big Mac wrappers better put somewhere else, say, in a trash receptacle. But, garbage is always invariably abominable and unjustifiable, intellectual materials or not.

In short, watch the amount of noise pollution you contribute to the environment, don’t be afraid to pick up after yourself, and above all, don’t expect others to clean up after themselves when you don’t practice your own policy.