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...letter to The Crimson (March 12), Virginia Mackay-Smith, Secretary of the Administrative Board, claims that "the College began publishing and distributing annual editions of 'The Ad Board and the Judicial Board: A User's Guide for Students' more than five years...
This statement is incorrect. The first edition of the guide was released in April 1993--not even four years ago. Its publication was widely reported in the campus media; an article in the Crimson (April 19, 1993) noted that the "Long-Awaited Guide to The Ad Board is Ready...
...began when best-selling vampire novelist Anne Rice took out a full-page ad in the New Orleans Times-Picayune going for the neck of a fellow celebrity for opening an "absolutely hideous" restaurant on one of her hometown's most famous avenues...
...Copeland, whose peach-colored Straya restaurant, complete with palm trees and enough neon to guide air traffic, brings a splash of Las Vegas and Miami Beach to a decaying stretch of New Orleans' elegant St. Charles Avenue, bit back 48 hours later with a two-page ad of his own. Copeland, who favors ostrich-skin cowboy boots and is known across Louisiana as a powerboat racer and founder of Popeyes spicy-fried-chicken chain, began his volley with "Dear Anne" and ended with "P.S.: See you in court. In the meantime, I'm putting a little extra garlic...
Public sentiment may have turned against Rice in the Straya affair after her second full-page ad, which struck some as self-promotion. In it, she noted that her most famous vampire, Lestat, just happens to disappear at the end of Memnoch at the abandoned auto dealership where Straya is now. And Copeland, who missed no public relations classes, realizes that the presumably fictional vampire can be as big a draw as Siegfried...