You probably noticed, when you arrived on campus this year, that the University had Physical Plant replace all the old gray and white signs with snappy new red and black ones. They look nice, don’t they?
Unfortunately, some people have already taken it upon themselves, hardly a month after the new signs were up, to deface them by putting stickers on them. As in, stickers that are not meant to ever be peeled off.
I really don’t understand it. What is running through someone’s mind when they do this? “Wow, I’ll just put this sticker on the big OLIN LIBRARY sign—who cares if it’s still here in three years because no one can get it off, I need people to see it NOW!” There are many, many venues for postering, stickering, or whatever on this campus. What is so earth-shaking about your message that it deserves to be put on the same level of signage prominence as, say, Olin Library or Shanklin Labs?
This happened a lot last year, too. Pretty much every other campus lightpost had a Dennis Kucinich bumper sticker slapped on it. Most of them are still there, ratty, fading, and completely unremovable. Our respective opinions on Kucinich’s politics, or whatever the content of the stickers happens to be, are irrelevant. There is no reason to deface campus infrastructure like this. It’s essentially the equivalent of spray-painting things onto the walkways.
This might seem trivial, but it’s just one small thing people can do to help make this campus look generally less run-down and slovenly. Thanks for your cooperation.
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