Photo by Jason W. Spencer
Josh Redden
Reporter
February 10, 2006
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| Freshman Adam Chapman
demonstrates Webb Hall's bare walls Photo by Jason W. Spencer |
During Webb hall’s first room inspections of the semester, RAs looked for posters featuring inappropriately-dressed women and beer slogans, handing out warnings to the posters’ owners.
During Christmas break, Resident Director Kevin Hurley, Vice President for Student Development Mark Fox and Director of Student Life Kim Parker checked the rooms to determine space for incoming transfers. While doing this, Hurley noticed several inappropriate posters.
Hurley said that during the fall semester, women came to him expressing their offense at some of these posters in question.
“We shouldn’t have that problem at Milligan College,” Hurley said.
To rid Webb of offensive material, Hurley set some basic guidelines for the content of these posters.
“If my wife or son go through the dorm and are offended by what they see, then it doesn’t belong in Webb,” said Hurley.
“In our first RA meeting of the semester, we discussed how these posters need to be taken down,” said senior RA Deke Bowman.
In the meeting, they decided to give warnings to students with inappropriate posters on the wall and fine students who refused to remove them.
“If we see they did not take it down, we hand out fines and confiscate the poster,” Bowman said.
“The only people that were fined were warned several times that the posters needed to come down,” said sophomore RA Jeremiah Key. “If they wanted to protest the fine, they could take it to Kevin and he would decide if the poster could stay.”
When the RAs confiscated the posters, they took them to Hurley, who handed them over to Fox.
“Fox will decide whether to give them back or to throw them away,” said Hurley.
According to the Milligan Student Handbook, “Obscene language, literature or pictures are not tolerated in and around the residence hall. The College reserves the right to remove questionable posters or material.”