The Student Center, a place to relax and a vital part of the school community, is the heart, soul and billboard of ULV. Without it, where else would Top Gun and Goober known how special they are this week? Where else would big sis and li’l sis get to greet one another? Where else would the pep squad get to congratulate a team?
The posters adorning the outside and entrance to the Student Center are as much a part of this school as the Rock. But posters adorn even the most sacred of places, the best cafeteria on campus—make that the only cafeteria on campus—Davenport Dining Hall.
When a prospective student enters the campus, they are bombarded by school spirit. All one has to do is look around and see the posters many students write, decorate and create at the Student Center desk.
This week a prospective student was not only able to see that our football team is going to the playoffs, but that many of the organizations on campus were holding events. Prospective students were also informed whose birthday it was on campus and the praises of students to their comrades.
Now, advertising of one’s events and congratulations are all right, but some of the posters are downright stupid.
The posters hanging in the Center must pass a slew of rules before being hung, like avoiding offensive language and such. Basically, it must make grammatical sense and be politically correct.
But that obviously does not mean that garbage cannot be hung; just take a look around campus.
“Tiffany Robles is really cool!” reads one sign hanging over the Student Center desk. She may be really cool, but must all of La Verne have to know?
In order to make a better impression on prospective students, our guidelines should be changed.
So what guidelines should posters follow?
All posters must be grammatically correct. This is a good rule, but maybe it should be enforced.
All posters must contain correct information. For two weeks, a sign hung in the Student Center congratulating the women’s soccer team on its second place finish. Duh…they were in third, not second.
All posters must not contain vulgarity. It’s bad enough that they are painted in vulgar colors, must they contain it too? Did anyone see those lovely KULV psychedelic posters? Oh, those are lovely.
All posters must contain pertinent information. This would be a definite plus. Under this rule, certain provisions would be made, like no happy birthday, good luck, have a nice week, day or minute signs.
Signs are a good thing, but they need to be done tastefully and for a reason. The constant hanging of such posters all over the school, especially in the Student Center, make the school look somewhat cheap. Outside the Student Center, there are hundreds of pieces of tape on the wall, left over from past posters.
Inside the Student Center is a whole other story. Until last year, posters were allowed to be hung only on the entrance inside, not on the wall behind the Spot. After just one year of hanging, even that wall looks worn down.
We should have pride in our campus. We should not use its walls and doors as billboards. It is not the Student Center’s problem. It is the students’ problem. Being able to hang signs on campus is a privilege and needs to be treated as such. The Super Tents look bad enough, must the walls also look worn down with tape hanging from every end?
If you want to say hello to a friend, call them and if that does not curb your hunger, use the boards that separate the Student Center from the Art area. Technically, that is where all postbills and posters should go.
So happy birthday J.T., Mike, Kristi and Julie. Have a nice weekend, my independent sisters Nicole, Amy and Amber. See you next week, Martha and Cherryl.
