“Students should sweep the streets so they can see how much mess their alcohol parties cause”
Sunday, October 4, 2015 @ 11:40 PM
MADRID'S mayoress wants university students to be in charge of sweeping and cleaning the city's streets.
As well as giving them an idea of what labour-intensive and manual work feels like, it would make them think twice about leaving a trail of destruction behind them when they hold botellones, or bring-your-own-bottle street-drinking parties, says Manuela Carmena of the left-wing independent party Ahora Madrid.
“University students are frequently the 'management committee' behind massive parties of young adults – including botellones – and normally, these accumulate an untold amount of rubbish,” Sra Carmena says.
She reveals that the dean of Madrid's Complutense University recently sent her photos of the campus after a series of outdoor drinking sessions, and the state of it gave her 'a sense of embarrassment'.
“It wouldn't do any harm for some of them to occasionally sweep up the streets over a two or three month period,” the mayoress considers.
As part of her own university work experience programme, Manuela Carmena herself worked in a jam factory, which she said helped contribute to 'transforming her personality', as it taught her what manual work was like.
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