Why not encourage people to use the walls creatively and
productively? Here's a suggestion: the admini&tration and
student government should split the cost of establishing a well-
equipped workshop to turn out notices, handbills, posters, etc.
for on-campus display quickly and cheaply. These services
should be supplied for anyone at the College requiring them.

The workshop should employ College students, especially those
studying visual arts. Who knows, a distinctive College art

form might evolve someday. All items should be expiry dated

and students hired to remove them when they expire.

Items not produced by the workshop should still be allowed, pro-
vided they are expirty dated and put up with masking tape. The
workshop should provide pre-cut mounting tape with each item.

A large "buy and sell" board should be placed on each campus.
Expiring dated handwritten buy and sell requests could be placed
there.

I, for one, have not been offended by what has appeared on the
various vertical surfaces at Douglas. (Although I must admit to
not being very moved by the graffiti.) We should be on our guard
lest clean campus zealots render our environment clinically
austere or business-like. In this regard I heartily recommend
the music of "The Fugs" especially their L.P.'s "River of Shit"
and "Golden Filth".

We should be more sensitive to folk art. Those same people who
want to tear down the notices that "clutter" walls are frequently
the same people who urge the bulldozing of squatter's shacks made
from found materials, such as those in Queensborough across from
Annacis Island. Why I even found erotic art to rival Beardsley
indelibly etched in the cubicles at UBC. There are areas of the
world where graffiti and slogans painted on fences and buildings
are an integral part of the cultural landscape. Lives were lost
in Czechoslovakia making statements in the landscape.

Finally, when we consider how difficult communications are in a
multi-campus institution I can only applaud those with the energy
and initiative to find a good spot to get their message across.

And, how do we reconcile our urging the students to freely express

themselves when they are confined within the four walls of the
classroom whilst suppressing free expression orythe walls?

amis © sal Kaas

P.S. I expect the handyman to either remove or place on a regular

notice board, that huge plexiglass covered notice with all
the faces on it "defacing" the cafeteria wall. Yeh, the one
advertising where and when to meet the administrators.