Loyola Phoenix: "Students hit streets, beach to clean up Rogers Park"
Item
Title
Loyola Phoenix: "Students hit streets, beach to clean up Rogers Park"
Description
Over 120 students from about 15 Loyola organizations worked together to clean up Rogers Park during the student-initiated Rogers Park Clean-Up Project (RPCUP), begun as a response to the worsening reputation of the community. Each organization focused on a pre-assigned area to clean. The clean-up spanned Devon Avenue on the south to Pratt Avenue on the north, and from the lake as far west as Glenwood Avenue. In total, students collected over 70 bags of thrash, with 20 bags coming from the beach alone. The article also describes plans for future iterations of the project, which include conducting the project at a larger scale and having greater involvement from the Jesuits in possibly rebuilding and repainting local houses and buildings. There are also two images of students cleaning the beach.
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
2002-04-17
File name
Loyola Phoenix 2002, April 17, page 7
Sources archive, University Archives and Special Collections or Women and Leadership Archives
University Archives and Special Collections
Source
Loyola University Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Phoenix 2002, April 17, page 7
Subject
Loyola University Chicago
Rogers Park Clean-Up Project (RPCUP)
Rights
Contact the Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections, archive@luc.edu, for permission to copy or publish.
