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Students decorate with posters
By Autumn Emmert
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Monday, September 29, 2003
Scantily clad men and women, drugs and alcohol, bad language and Bob Marley. No, this is not a preview of the newest James Bond sequel, or even the beginning of a new political movement. This is what college students choose to cover their walls with.
The most popular posters differ depending upon which floor you happen to be on. On some of the guys' floors you can find naked or nearly naked women, posters showing drugs and alcohol and you might even find Bob Marley smoking some marijuana. On a girls' floor you might find "hot guys," movie posters and inspirational poems.
Posters of "10 Things I Hate About You," "American Beauty" and Vincent VanGogh's "A Sidewalk Caf� at Night," adorn the wall of sophomore Ashlee Bekish's dorm room.
"In high school I had a huge love of movie posters; at home my walls and ceilings are covered with movie posters," Bekish said. "American Beauty" and "10 Things I Hate About You" are two of her favorite movie posters. Bekish said that it is getting harder for her to get new movie posters. She used to buy posters from a theater near her house, but the theater can no longer sell them. And as for the VanGogh, "I just liked it, it caught my eye," Bekish said.
"It reminds me of a caf� in Europe, and I want to go to Spain."
Bekish said that some of the most popular posters that she has seen are probably "The Simpsons" and some other television shows, and anything that has to do with alcohol.
A picture of the inside of an airplane cockpit, the poem "Footprints" and a fuzzy poster hang sporadically around the room of sophomore Jessica Andrie.
Andrie's major is aviation operations, which might explain the need to hang a poster of the cockpit of an airplane in her room.
"I like it because it keeps me thinking of airplanes," Andrie said.
Andrie also said that the poster helps her to visualize when she is studying. It helps remind her that if she ever wants to do that some day, she is going to have to study, and it will eventually pay off, she said.
Andrie also has a couple poems in her room. They can be an inspiration, or as she said, "just for a reality check."
Another unique decoration in Andrie's room is a fuzzy poster. Students may remember these fuzzy black color-in-the-lines posters from childhood.
Andrie picked up the fuzzy poster recently just for "Sh- and giggles." Andrie said that the fuzzy poster was fun.
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