Freshman Open War on Garbage

Beer bottles along the Charles are bugging the freshmen.

So Philip R. Christensen '69 and 11 others have organized C.L.E.A.N. (community Litter Elimination Action Now) to fight one of Cambridge's most abundant unnatural resources--litter.

According to Christensen, CLEAN hopes to sponsor a Cambridge Clean-up Week from April 30 through May 7 in co-operation with city officials. Throughout the spring, CLEAN will contact school officials, boy scout troops, and local merchants in an effort to recruit volunteers and raise money to publicize their endeavours.

According to Alan Evans '69, another of the founders of CLEAN, the project grew out of informal discussions among members of a freshman seminar on "Problem Solving." The seminar, Evans said yesterday, "has been working on a wide variety of problems that don't really relate to anything in particular."

The idea of applying problem solving theory to the streets of Cambridge came up about three weeks ago, Evans said. "We wanted to improve the Harvard image -- to show the people of Cambridge that we're really concerned."

As a long range goal, CLEAN hopes to lobby for new and effective anti-litter legislation.