Members of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority at Loyola cleaned Freret Street on Saturday morning as a part of Loyola's National Day of Community Service. (Nicole Harvey for UptownMessenger.com)
Loyola sophomore Michael Murgado helps to remove graffiti as a part of Loyola's National Day of Community Service on Freret Street. (Nicole Harvey for UptownMessenger.com)
Loyola senior, Alexis English helps clean graffiti with fellow Delta Sigma Pi members. (Nicole Harvey for UptownMessenger.com)
Alpha Chi Omega members collect garbage from Valence Street. (Nicole Harvey for UptownMessenger.com)
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Members of the Zeta Psi chapter of Alpha Chi Omega clean trash from the streets near Freret. (Nicole Harvey for UptownMessenger.com)
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Members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Alpha Chi Omega sorority work together to clean Freret Street. (Nicole Harvey for UptownMessenger.com)
Trumpeter Mario Abney plays with Lagnappe Brass Band at the Freret Market following the cleanup. (Nicole Harvey for UptownMessenger.com)
Lagnappe Brass Band plays at the Freret Market, which takes place on the first Saturday of every month. (Nicole Harvey for UptownMessenger.com)
Some Loyola volunteers enjoyed listening to Lagnappe Brass Band after their morning of work. (Nicole Harvey for UptownMessenger.com)
Nicole Harvey, a senior Communication major at Tulane University and photo editor of The Hullabaloo campus newspaper, is a contributing photographer for UptownMessenger.com. She can be reached at nharvey@tulane.edu, or leave a comment below.
This is for all the crabby neighbors around the maple street area. As you can see, fraternities and sororities are not just college drunks and arsonist who burn down there houses. They are students from out of state, who want to cleanup the neighborhood since its local residents won’t.
Hi Patty,
As a volunteer for the New Freret (merch. association), resident of the corridor and a full time employee @ Loyola I can attest that most students want to be respectful of the community and neighborhoods. Last year a Loyola fraternity did a similar litter cleanup from Calhoun down to Louisiana along Freret.
This issue at hand is underage drinking. Until New Orleans enforces 21+ only, the neighborhoods will continue to suffer. Often when alcohol enters the formula…community service goes out the door and the debris litters the neighborhoods. As a homeowner that lived 3 doors from one of the worst “high school” bars in town, I can attest to the half dozen property damage reports I filed with the police in less than 4 months. When you get very little sleep, have to clean up trash and spend money on repairs….you tend to get “crabby”.
I have lived in the neighborhood for 41 years. I love the college students. They are what keeps the neighborhood vibrant and me young. Underage drinking is not the problem. it was 18 to drink in 1995 and the problems were minimal. The problem stems from people who got thier property cheap after Katrina. Neighborhood associations are out of control. Susan Guidry doesent care about anyone who doesent have a vote.