Starting this fall, the University Police Department will be ticketing those who litter on campus to better enforce litter control.
The announcement was made on Earth Day, April 22, as part of Southeastern’s Go Green Keep, it Clean campaign. Instead of paying a worker to pick up the trash, the university has decided to establish a financial consequence to littering.  
“We were really excited that Southeastern wanted to get on board and do this, you know, kick off the campaign with our event, because that’s what we are really focusing on in this event,” said Megan Mosher, a graduate student in organizational communication.
Each year (Comm 621) Communication Campaigns plans Earth Day as part of their major curriculum. Mosher, who is enrolled in the class, explained that each person is graded upon research and an actual physical part of putting together Earth Day.
“We divided up into two groups,” said Mosher.  “One focused on Southeastern and actually putting together Earth Day. The other group focused on getting research together from the university, the Louisiana system and the different nine colleges and what they’re doing.”
April 22, 2013 marks the 43rd anniversary of the origin of the environmental holiday Earth Day, where Southeastern students and organizations came together to spread awareness on environmentally friendly practices and opportunities available to students on campus. As part of the celebration of Earth Day, the class came up with a survey to give out to students polling them on what they currently do to help the environment and how Southeastern can  increase availability of these opportunities.  
“Well I kind of knew that we wanted to know: what the students’ opinion was about what can we do to be green?” said Elizabeth Johnson, graduate organizational communication major. “So I went online and looked at what students at other schools thought is important at their school, and what they thought their school needed to do to be more environmentally friendly.  The questions ask them, ‘Do you know about what Southeastern’s doing? What would you like Southeastern to do?'”
The goal is to receive as many opinions as possible so that the class can then research the problems expressed and hand over solutions to the university. Students who filled out the questionnaire received a free T-shirt.  
The goal of the Go Green, Keep it Clean campaign is to try to get students more involved in picking up litter on campus.  
The Comm 621 class recruited many more Southeastern and Hammond organizations for the event.
“They enter every year in the cleanest city competition,” said Mosher.  “Last count, we won six years in a row, so we’re really excited.”
Southeastern Organization, Fresh Campus continued their campaign on reducing cigarette butt litter and air pollution.  They set up the box of cigarette butts left over from Kick Butts day last semester.  
“We have Fresh Campus which did an event in the fall called ‘The Big Butt’ event and they picked up cigarette butts on campus,” said Mosher.  They picked up thousands of cigarette butts on campus, so they’re here to raise awareness not only about litter, but also about keeping the air clean.”
Comm 621 gave out free cake and CAB supplied snowballs while KSLU entertained the crowd.  Instead of giving out their normal plastic water bottles at university events, SGA brought reusable water bottles in honor of Earth Day.