BATON ROUGE, LA – After nearly five years of picking up trash around Baton Rouge, the volunteer group Keep Tiger Town Beautiful has officially been given its toughest job yet, cleaning up LSU Athletics. This will be the teams first inside cleanup.
Governor Jeff Landry announced the Executive Order Wednesday, saying the group had “proven experience in handling recurring waste problems with limited supervision,” making them the perfect choice to tackle “the administrative landfill currently overflowing on Nicholson Drive.”
The cleanup order comes after a couple weeks of chaos in Baton Rouge, LSU’s athletic director was shown the door, the football coach’s contract went up in smoke, and the university’s new president, Dr. Wade Rousse, removed the “interim” tag from Verge Ausberry’s title before promptly reattaching it eight hours later.
Volunteers say they’re confident but cautious. “We’ve pulled mattresses, beer cans, and entire couches out of Bayou Fountain,” team leader Jennifer Richardson said. “But this… this is a different kind of mess.”
The group plans to start outside the athletic offices and “work their way up to the director’s suite, depending on just how much garbage they find that needs to be immediately removed.”
