![Alexander Oki ‘28 picks up trash in the lower parking lot Feb. 20. According to Keep America Beautiful, the majority of the trash found on both roads and waterways consists of fast food wrappers and packaging, receipts and plastic beverage bottles. Clubs like the National Honor Society (NHS) offer students the opportunity to earn service hours by cleaning up the trash in the parking lots. “[The trash] makes us look very unhygienic and unmotivated to be a proper school,” Emberlyse Vidal ‘28 said. “It makes us look like we just don't care about our students' environments.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260220_1355020-2-1200x904.jpg)
With National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Final Four matches set, students around the school have varying opinions on March Madness.
The Final Four women’s teams were North Carolina State University against the University of South Carolina (USC) April 5 at 5 p.m., which ended with a score of 78-59 W for the USC. Following that, the University of Connecticut played against the University of Iowa April 5 at 7 p.m., which ended in a score of 71-69 W for the University of Iowa.
For the men’s bracket, Northern Carolina State played against Purdue University April 6 at 4:10 p.m., finishing with a score of 63-50 W for Purdue University. Next, the University of Alabama played against the University of Connecticut (UConn) April 6 at 6:50 p.m which ended in a score of 86-72 W for UConn.
USC faced Iowa today, April 7 at 1 p.m. in a win for the gamecocks USC 87-75. UConn will face Purdue University tomorrow at 7:20 p.m. April 8.
Reporters Spencer Rathbun ’24, Will Rosenmeyer ’24 and Preston Duman ’26 interviewed students about their brackets, what their expectations for the games had been and what teams they have set winning April 2.
The story will continue to update, after the final tournaments.