All around Hilltop apartments and the Memorial Mall there are dozens of lovely trees giving green color and shade to the campus between April and September. Each year as students return to the campus the trees are full with leaves and bright with color. It won’t be long though, before these trees are more annoying than campus cops.

Soon some of these fruit bearing trees will drop their seeds, covering the sidewalk with would-be saplings. Students walking around campus inadvertently step on these berries releasing a hideous odor. These are known as Ginkgo Trees but many students lovingly refer to them as shit berries, because well, they smell like shit.

So when you’re late for class this October, just watch your step as your barrel down the sidewalks. For all of our sakes, please avoid the shit berries.