Poster Problems
Hi,
The union poster regulations contain the rules:
Posters not to be put up closer than 5 metres apart where there is insufficient space.
Posters not to be put up over other in date posters.
Presumably then, if one was to put up some posters following all the rules and particularly those above, they would be left there until the event had been and gone. This is not the case, posters are regularly ripped down a matter of hours after they are put up. The main offenders in this practice are not rouge clubs and societies however, they are the wonderful, unimpeachable fellows who wrote the rules in the first place.
The union regularly carpet bomb the main walkway and JCR with swathes of huge posters advertising their shitty events, popular only with people who would attend them regardless of there being five inconspicuous sheets of A4 or five million hideously garish posters covering every available square inch of college. Everyone knows cheesy wotsits is on three times a bloody week, advertising is not the answer for this lame duck. Perhaps if the thousands of pounds spent on advertising pisspoor events and inconsequental referendums (for a supposedly apolitical institution) were diverted elswhere clubs might be able to book a minibus when they need one.
