Editor,

I read with interest your articles in La Voz Nov. 19, regarding the custodial staffing and the students picking up the campus.
I am a trash-a-holic.
I walk my dog each morning and on Saturdays I pick trash on McClellan from Stelling to the high school, the Monta Vista parking lot and then onto the 7-Eleven perk pond and railroad tracks.  This yields three to four bags.
On Sundays we do some of the De Anza, parking lots, Sunken Gardens and the campus center. Again, several bags.  
Once a month, I volunteer for an “Adopt an Highway” groups that pick ups our adopted two miles of Highway 280.  Each month we pick more than 30 bags of trash and three bags of recyclables.
This is an ongoing problem.  I am astounded how the “Green Generation” simply tosses their garbage out the window in the parking lots:  Burger King, Starbucks, Togo’s , the whole mess and not 10 feet from a trash can.  De Anza a non smoking campus?  What a joke; you can’t believe the number of cigarette packages I pick up weekly.  
I applaud your “clean up the campus day.”  However, this is an ongoing problem.  I suggest you revive the “De Anza Pride” campaign and push to get more trash cans.  For example, there are only two in front of the new Visual Arts and Media building.  There are only one or two between the Stelling Parking structure and the athletic fields.  De Anza can use more trash cans.  
I also recommend you focus on educating the masses on keeping our campus clean.  If anti-litter campaigns are successful, then “clean up the campus” events would not be required.  Unfortunately, they are necessary, and maybe you could organize them on a monthly basis.  Unfortunately, you would find lots of trash to pick.  

-Someone who cares
 (Name withheld on request)