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Dear Editor,
Nearly every morning, I get up at an ungodly hour to join the rest of my sleep-deprived cross-country team for a brisk jog around the track. Although I can barely feel my legs moving, my brain has enough power to appreciate the cool weather and lack of smog in the air.
But still, exhaust fumes waft across the track, intermingling with the sweet smell of muffins baking in the marketplace. The source? Leaf-blowers. At least twice a week, every dead leaf littering the ground is purged from campus. I appreciate the beautiful landscaping done by a talented team of workers, but is it really necessary to add leaf blowing to their already long list of jobs to keep the campus looking great? Biking through campus after practice, I feel like I’m biking alongside of a busy highway (without the sounds of angry horns and screeching tires).
Isn’t there a better way to keep the campus clean? It seems contradictory to remove dead leaves to keep the abundant plant life healthy while polluting the air. Let’s keep Oxy a place to escape the concrete smog jungle that is much of Los Angeles.
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