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SGA campaign posters show no purpose, leave ‘The Bored’ alone please


Leave The Bored alone, if you please.

It’s about time someone realized how silly the campaign blitz on this campus is.

Billions of posters with no actual information on them are no great loss to UTM and it’s nice to see activism of any sort, given how few people seem to have an interest in school government (according to your article on March 26).

I’m very glad to know I’m not alone in thinking that the number of advertisements campaigners post is ridiculous--particularly given that most of them are running unopposed.

When I vote, I want candidates who are thoughtful, hardworking and focused on the job.

Running off 2,000 posters of your beaming face with a cute slogan doesn’t suggest any of these qualities. It’s excessive, borders on defacing campus property and is just generally annoying.

Every time I go to class in EPS, I confront a staircase with posters for one candidate stuck on the rail every three feet, all the way up--and the other side of the rail has an equally-distributed blight, from a different candidate.

What does a cute slogan tell me, ultimately, about a candidate?

Slogans should be the “title” of a campaign, a way to remember a candidate, not the whole sum of a candidate’s platform.

It’s all very well that your name rhymes with “vote,” but perhaps you could dedicate one teeny corner of the poster to outlining your position on certain campus issues.

I notice that The Bored’s name and poster (note the singular!) have been torn down; isn’t that precisely what they’re supposed to have narrowly avoided charges for?

Erica McDonald is a senior English major from Memphis.