Darn Vandles
Matt's post reminds me of something that the conservatives at my college ran into last year. I'm not sure there is much a candidate can do to stop childish vandels, but other conservatives might be able to...
We had printed about $1,500 worth of various posters and banners (of course, we got a good deal because of venerable conservative print-shops!). We hung them all around campus starting 10 days before a very large event we were hosting. Nothing that could be taken as offensive was on the posters.
Of course, $300 worth went up; $300 worth were torn-down and ripped apart, left to pepper the red-brick of Georgetown's Red Square (David Horowitz once commented to me on red-square: "might as well call the administration building the Reichstag").
And again. Again. Again. All of our posters were torn down and ripped up. Something I learned from a conservative paper I used to edit is that anything that's priced, costs money. On our free paper, we'd have a box at the top that said "Two copies FREE, each copy thereafter $1." If someone got caught throwing a stack away, they could be charged for all extra copies.
This year, on the posters we're putting "this poster costs $500" and positioning them as best we can under the school's survelience cameras. We'll have to see if it works.
We had printed about $1,500 worth of various posters and banners (of course, we got a good deal because of venerable conservative print-shops!). We hung them all around campus starting 10 days before a very large event we were hosting. Nothing that could be taken as offensive was on the posters.
Of course, $300 worth went up; $300 worth were torn-down and ripped apart, left to pepper the red-brick of Georgetown's Red Square (David Horowitz once commented to me on red-square: "might as well call the administration building the Reichstag").
And again. Again. Again. All of our posters were torn down and ripped up. Something I learned from a conservative paper I used to edit is that anything that's priced, costs money. On our free paper, we'd have a box at the top that said "Two copies FREE, each copy thereafter $1." If someone got caught throwing a stack away, they could be charged for all extra copies.
This year, on the posters we're putting "this poster costs $500" and positioning them as best we can under the school's survelience cameras. We'll have to see if it works.
posted by Boz at 10:11 AM
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