Everyone can agree that the loss against Nebraska Saturday afternoon was a tough one. Players, students and fans poured their hearts and souls into that game. Despite the loss, we all came away with a lot. We now know that our football team is living past expectations; we now know just how closely the student section can bond.

I must say I was feeling pretty good about the quality of people at Notre Dame. I had the chance to reflect upon this as I settled down for an early evening nap after the game. My roommate and I turned off the lights, climbed into our bunks and recalled the day's events as we tried to drift off to sleep.

However, our naps were soon interrupted by loud screams and laughter just outside our window. No, it wasn't obnoxious Nebraska fans celebrating their victory. It was worse.

I pulled back the window shade to find a group of Notre Dame students in their green shirts, kicking over one of those cardboard garbage bins outside of Bond Hall, and spreading the trash all over the grass. They all thought it was a pretty funny thing to do. I was disgusted.

What could I do to stop them from being so rude, so disrespectful, so ungrateful?

All we could think to do was yell out of our darkened windows at them and tell them we could see what they were doing and that we didn't think it was a very cool thing to do. They looked up with confused faces and replied, "Who is that?"

I wanted to shout back, "Who are you?"

Who are you to literally trash our campus after such an exciting day? Who are you to disrespect this school that gives us so much? Who are you to act less mature than the hundreds of little future Domers that were on campus Saturday with their parents?

I observed them run away from the scene, giving each other high fives the same way students did when we made three touchdowns earlier that day.

It was my impression that Notre Dame students felt a certain loyalty to this campus, to this school. However, that group of seven or eight children, as I now call them, thought it was their right to do whatever it was they wanted to just for the sake of their good time.

Hopefully, whoever is responsible for such an immature act reads this and recognizes that what they did does not fit in with Notre Dame's character — Notre Dame students don't tip over garbage bins to trash their campus. I hope they think about the people who had to get up early the next morning to pick up their mess. I want them to feel ashamed.

Notre Dame is a classy place with classy students. We proved that to ourselves and to the world Saturday at the game. Let's keep it that way.

• A Touch of Class