Word: posters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stand in another one, the 32nd. The incumbent there, freshman Pete Sessions, suddenly faces a pit bull of a campaigner in a battle that will probably be the most expensive House race in the country, with each side expected to spend $4 million. With the candidates trading charges of poster stealing and arguing over who is tougher on child kidnappers, neither one may come out of this ugly fight looking like a winner...
This fall, postering time is 7:30 a.m., until FMO decides it’s cold enough to shift to 12:30. Responses to the changes are mixed. “I don’t miss it at all” says Elena D. Bassett ’07 about the later time change. Susan “Scottie” S. Thompson, ’05, former publicity manager of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, agrees. “Do I miss freezing my hands off in the middle of winter? No,” she says, adding...
...It’s a cutthroat world with postering,” explains Ashley P. Horan ’05, ex-president and current member of On Thin Ice (OTI), the improv group. She deems the current state of affairs “a very serious situation.” Her group has been subject to potential fines and possible foul play over the issue. Once, says Horan, OTI postered “on a sandwich board that we had not reserved…someone, like in the Krokodiloes perhaps, reported us” (when questioned, David A. Eisenberg...
...Karlin notes that “being up that early really makes you get a start on the day” and adds “you always feel more productive after postering”. As more and more student groups join the fray each Monday and Thursday, the postering debate will continue to rage. Meanwhile, some marketing renegades are bypassing orthodox methods to spread their messages of tickets, free pizza and comps. Horan admits that her favorite unauthorized place to poster is an oft-overlooked one: “bathroom stalls, even though it’s totally illegal...
...subway later that evening, preferring not to gaze at the potential European supremacists who seemed to crowd around me, I took notice of a poster advertising a lottery to win one of the 55,000 Green Cards granted each year by the U.S. government. “Work, live, study in the USA!” Great. Not only do they hate us, but they also want to invade our country and increase their numbers within our borders to more surely overcome our resistance when the time comes for our destruction. Nothing could satisfy them more than an active role...