Car for sale, free pool in Spartan Club, and an iPhone screen repair service are all messages one could find on the community bulletin board on the second floor in the Vaughn Center. Due to popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter taking over, some would say the use of bulletin boards as marketing tools around campus aren’t as useful as they once were. In this day and age, is the technology we have the most effective way to get the word out?
Sophomore and International and Cultural Studies Major, Elyse Fulton seems to believe so, “I usually don’t pay any attention to the bulletin boards on campus, either they are too cluttered or outdated.” Fulton goes on, “Since I check my Facebook every day I tend to go to the events I am invited to on Facebook.”
Staff Assistant in the Office of Student Leadership and Engagement (OSLE), Cheryl Chernoff, is the person one would look for when trying to obtain the stamp of approval for a flier to put on a UT bulletin board.
Chernoff explained some rules and regulations of the content that can be on a flier posted on campus. “Fliers must come from registered organizations or sponsored by an organization.” She continues, “All posters can be kept up for two weeks and the organization can bring another one to be re-stamped.”
Nothing can be announced about serving alcohol on campus, while most Facebook events UT students get are from nightlife entertainment around the Tampa area. Chernoff explains, “There have been a lot of restaurants that ask to put fliers up about hiring waitresses and bartenders, but we cannot promote alcohol or smoking.”
There are occurrences where posting policies have not been followed and disciplinary actions must take place. Chernoff continues, “If something is posted without an approval stamp or disobeys a posting policy then we first take it down and that organization or person gets a warning.” After the first offense, the organization faces a thirty day penalty and a sixty day penalty after that.
Chernoff discussed a recent break of rules for the posting policies, “someone was putting up fliers for the Campus Movie Fest. They had posted it on the glass of the Vaughn Lobby, which is not allowed. They had to remove that flier and all of the other Campus Movie Fest fliers as well.”
In her six years of approving posters, Chernoff believes the increased use of Facebook has had little effect on the number of campus fliers she sees each week. “There hasn’t been a decrease, if anything there’s been an increase.” Chernoff does not predict a decline anytime soon, because not everyone has a Facebook or Twitter account.
To get more information on posting policies, contact Cheryl Chernoff at (813)253-6233, cchernoff@ut.edu or visit the OSLE office on the second floor of Vaughn Center.
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