Word: posterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Performance posters here tend to be selfserving. A corner of a kiosk is the closest thing Harvard has to a theater marquee. You can get your name on a poster. Maybe even your picture. Presto--you're famous...
...natural history museums hope so too. They have long recognized that dinosaur watching is prime infotainment, and they are ready to exploit the want-see for Jurassic Park with ambitious exhibitions tied to the film in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, New Haven and other cities. Last month an educational poster on dinosaurs, produced by New York's American Museum of Natural History, was mailed free to 7 million schoolchildren, courtesy of McDonald's -- which will also be handing out Jurassic Park mugs at the local franchises...
...Harvard, postering is a major vehicle of expression for campus organizations; in fact, for many it is their only outlet. We approve of the College's policies which prohibit, subject to severe punishment, the destruction or removal of a poster or posters from College bulletin boards and kiosks. This rule is all that protects the integrity of postering and insures that groups with something to say still be heard...
Moreover, we oppose current Harvard regulations which restrict postering to official student organizations or groups of a certain size that ask for special permission, and our standing policy is to poster for any Harvard students who do not have the administration's permission to do so in their own name...
...particular case, a Harvard student, Joshua Oppenheimer '96, has admitted pulling down an AALARM poster, and AALARM has insisted that he be punished. If this is true, his actions were wrong...