TriBeta held their third annual Bayou Clean Up Saturday. The event began at nine with students and faculty taking on the task by land and by water.

 “I take a lot of pride in my school and I think it’s really great that we are able to come out and help make it look great,” said Ellie Jackson, a sophomore biology major.

Erin Foster, president of the Beta Beta Beta organization, said that this year was best described as a milestone.

“We’ve had more people join TriBeta than we have had in the past few years,” Foster said.

Foster, a senior biology major,  said that keeping nature beautiful was an important step to keeping it healthy.

“TriBeta is a biological honors society. In our creed it says that we should protect nature,” Foster said.

This semester alone TriBeta has inducted roughly 40 or 50 new members, according to Foster.

“I’m very proud to be the president of an organization that takes pride in what they do. I believe that we’ll go far,” Foster said.

The members of the organization were happy to get into the mud to help make the bayou cleaner.

“I want to encourage people to utilize the trash cans on and around campus instead of polluting the bayou,” said Raven Hargrove, a senior biology major.