If you’ve been around campus since Wednesday night, hopefully you’ve seen one of our posters. We plastered campus with three different posters in an (vain?) attempt to get the word out about the club. Much to our chagrin, when we came back to school on Thursday, every single one of our posters in the UC had been removed.
Now, if this is an issue with tape against the paint or something like that, fine. I can deal with that- we didn’t know such regulations existed, but if it’s a rule, it’s a rule. The problem is, of course, that we were never informed one way or another what an acceptable adhesive and location for posters would be. To come back in on Thursday morning, after spending quite a bit of money printing full-colour posters and time putting them up, and not see them anywhere? Yeah, that’s a piss off.
If it’s a rule concerning the physical structure of the building and the detrimental effects tape has on paint, that’s fine- but apply the damn rules evenly. I see MUNSU and other society posters up every day with tape, yet they aren’t taken down. If the issue is political, then someone at MUN or Facilities Management needs to remove his or her head from his or her sphincter. Political posters should be encouraged- I mean, I know under the King Danny administration dissent is frowned upon (and crushed with an iron fist) but this is a place of higher learning, where ideas should flow forth, not be stifled by bureaucratic idiocy.
Maybe I’m fretting about nothing. Maybe there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for all of it. But when I see EWB and Vagina Monologue posters put up in places there used to be MUN Liberal posters, I get a little mad.
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