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...vacation from Glasgow, Scotland. Still, she says, standing just yards from the spot where she's often watched the iconic ball descend to herald each New Year, "it's amazing to think something would happen here." As uniformed military personnel ducked in and out of the recruiting office, the poster of Uncle Sam maintained his familiar pose - eyes fixed on prospective recruits, index finger outstretched, issuing his trademark beckoning call: "I Want You." But to Damian Brown, 31, peering at the scene from across the street, the blast conveyed the opposite message. "Time to bring those boys home," he says...
...Eating isn’t fun anymore,” reads one particularly frank Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) poster. On a busy campus like Harvard, the most these posters may get out of passersby may be the moment or two they take to consider the message before hurrying off to class.But for many at Harvard, these posters hit closer to home. In the weight-obsessed era of fad diets and diminishing waist sizes, what role do colleges play in ensuring that students have a healthy relationship with food? When do habits of college students who are watching what...
...Chalk is universally available in the world outside Cambridge, and cheap to boot. Students need only invest their time and skill in order to produce lavish advertisements or political arguments. It invites forms of expression that venture well beyond those of the trusty but limited poster. As a consequence, messages in chalk become more than advertisements. They are transformed into part of our physical landscape, something that manipulates the very skeleton of our campus...
...exciting to see an opinion war fought in chalk, and it would be inspiring to see the fabric of Harvard life spread itself out across the ground. It’s senseless to choke the channel of communication for the entire Yard to a few square feet of approved poster space. We live in a country inspired by ideas that were shared on public greens and commons. Harvard Yard ought to be the preeminent forum for communication in America, and its pathways ought to be its most prominent bully pulpit...
...Very few. On some level, there’s a limit to how many times people really can come.” Though the items printed at the Bow and Arrow Press can exude an aura of antiquated charm and elegance that sets them apart from the mass-produced posters one commonly sees around campus, the time commitment required to produce a poster at the press often discourages already overtaxed students.“It can take an average of five to six hours to create a poster,” says Ke Xu ’09, another press...