Hideous “hippy” bins

Are those hideous recycling bins on campus really necessary? I realize we’re “going green,” and I’m fine with recycling, but must they be covered in hippy graffiti? It’d be a great place for all the flyers sorority girls hand me (if they had some bins for paper), but they’re the tackiest things I’ve ever seen next to those bridges we allow the fraternities to paint. It seems like green would be an appropriate color for these bins, perhaps with a recycling symbol on the front. Can’t we recycle with a little class? Sorry if I lost the New Yorkers, but both class and recycling are important to some people. Furthermore, if we’re interested in helping the environment, let’s put some ash trays on campus. I realize we have a no-smoking policy, but, as we’ve chosen not to enforce it, there are cigarette butts littered all over building entrances. Which brings me to my next question: We can afford to pay someone to walk around issuing tickets on improperly parked bicycles, but we can’t pay someone to enforce the no-smoking policy? After all the school shootings in the last few years, we don’t have some sort of campus security in place that could perhaps ask smokers to move along? Not that I necessarily agree with the smoking policy or enforcing it, but the logic we’ve applied here is questionable. Honestly, I’d prefer that we just drop the policy if that’s what it takes to provide ashtrays. These aren’t major problems, but they’re easily resolved. We can be clean and green in style.