University of Oregon isn’t taking any of that environment crap. While other schools across the country are ridding their cafeterias of trays, which have been tied to excessive food waste and energy costs associated with cleaning, University of Oregon is putting its proverbial foot down.

According to The Associated Press:

[I]magine the surprise of Bluto Blutarsky, who piled his tray high, using some of the heaping portions to start a food fight in the 1978 film, "National Lampoon's Animal House."

Advocates of the trayless cafeterias say if students can't pile on the food as Bluto did, they might consume fewer calories and keep off those unhealthy pounds often gained in college…

It's too soon to measure cost savings nationwide. But five times more energy and water are consumed in dining halls than any other square foot on college campuses, said Sodexo spokeswoman Monica Zimmer.

"So if a college is looking to go 'green,' they need to start looking in the dining facility," Zimmer said.

Georgia Tech, enrollment 18,000, has saved 3,000 gallons of water per day without trays, she said.

The 50,000-student University of Florida estimates it will save 470,000 gallons annually. At the 2,000-student University of Maine at Farmington, which went trayless in February 2007, the tally is 288,000 gallons, said Aramark spokesman Dave Gargione.

At Erb Memorial Union, the University of Oregon dining hall where the famous food fight scene in Animals House was set, trays will continue to be used, students will continue to gain the freshman fifteen, and water will continue to be wasted. Ah, tradition!