When traditions aren't green ...

from the Albany Times Union, February 15, 2008

Warming issue makes campus tradition less cool
Saint Rose debates if annual toilet paper prank is defensible in green era

By MARC PARRY, Staff writer
ALBANY -- The toilet paper flies at midnight.

It starts with a countdown. By the time this Halloween ritual is over, hundreds of students have unleashed 30 cases of toilet paper at a College of Saint Rose tree.
"It's quite exhilarating," said sophomore Schuyler Bull, 19, the student association president. "Gets your heart going."
This year, though, students and administrators at the Albany college are debating whether to clean up their "TP the Tree" tradition.
It's an offbeat indication of how colleges are re-examining the environmental impact of their campus activities, even cherished routines of undergraduate rowdiness....
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So what might the impacts actually be? Well, a case of toilet paper appears to be 96 rolls, and costs about $1 per roll.

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Here's what we find in Siena's Environmental Economics class: