The on-campus beauty is one of the aspects of Sacramento State that brings a variety of students here.

Sac State freshman Sandy Calderon said she enjoys the outdoor beauty and wildlife on campus. The clean grass areas and walkways do not go unnoticed either.

&I think it&s a really great campus and people should put in their part to keep it that way,& she said.

The drawback, said the 18-year-old, is indoors, in the Student Union or the River Front Market, where students don&t clean up ike they should.

&People just need to bus their own tables,& she said. &Some of the tables are just really gross.&

Meanwhile, 20-year-old Nathan Small believes more littering exists outdoors than it does indoors. The main source of the litter, he said, are the informational flyers handed out to students.

&People hand out fliers from the different clubs or sororities, and the students drop them,& Small said. &A lot of our trash cans are full to the rim and things fall out. I&ve seen worse though. We like a clean campus.&

A clean campus is important to the school, said Ron Richardson, the interim associate vice president of facilities management.

Littering is not a problem on campus, he added, but it is something that his staff continually concentrates on.

&We have a number of trash cans in critically occupied areas to make it easier for students and staff to not litter,& Richardson said.

The grounds men on campus also play a crucial part, he added. The campus is divided in sections and each employee has a part of campus that he concentrates on. Their duties include pruning bushes, picking up leaves and cleaning up the litter. They make their rounds throughout the day, so the campus is kept relatively clean.

Reggie Leipsic, the owner and operator of Hula Dog, located at the front of the River Front Market, said students around him are clean. Some litter, he said, but most students and faculty do not.

&The caliber of students at a state college or a private college tend to be more conscientious of their surrounds and fellow students,& he said.

Leipsic added though that he wished the clean up areas would be monitored more often throughout the River Front and Student Union eating areas.

&The trash fills up pretty quickly so you can&t put anything in it,& said Alison Moser, 18, who eats in the Student Union. &Some people don&t even bother.&

Some believe that more should be done about recycling on campus. Rachel Young, 21, feels there should be more advertisement and opportunities to recycle. As she sits outside the University Union she counts the trash and recycles areas around her. Afterwards, she is not optimistic.

&Out of the 10 trash cans I&ve just seen, I only see one recycle bin,& she said. &A 10 to 1 ratio is not very positive.&

Roger Guzowski, the coordinator of logistics recycling and solid waste, said there are more than 50 bins for bottles and cans on campus. He admits there is room for improvement, but without the necessary funds, the cost is too high. A bin for both recycling and trash can cost more than $1,000.

&We&re hoping to go back to the days when you had a recycle bin next to each trash can,& he said, &or at least, closer to that scenario.&

Guzowski feels that most students are willing to recycle. Some students, he said, are even overambitious, and stuff the bins with materials that cannot be recycled, such as plastic coffee cups.

&When they have the opportunity, students recycle,& he said. &Overall, I think it&s a little harder here because we are such a commuter campus.&

Richardson said the clean appearance of the campus can be attributed to the students, faculty, staff and grounds staff.

&There is a sense of pride of everyone in the campus community,& he said. &If it looks nice, people tend to respect it.&