By snoadmin
With the Associated Students Inc. election day approaching, candidates have posted their campaign signs throughout campus, some of which display shirtless men or Victoria’s Secret models.
Most students, however, said they hardly pay attention to the signs, if at all. On Monday, some students glanced at the signs but did not stop to read them. Most students walked by the signs while either looking straight ahead or at their phones.
“I just noticed them; I haven’t read them,” senior engineering major Nigel Geisler said.
Geisler also said that he probably won’t vote in the ASI elections.
“I don’t want to break my five-year streak,” he said.
Some signs received more attention than others, such as a sign for ASI President John Haberstroh and Vice President Jonathon Bolin that shows the candidates’ heads edited onto the bodies of muscular shirtless men. The sign also reads, “We don’t need fancy suits to win.”
“It grabbed my attention, but it’s not going to sway the way I vote,” sophomore art major Jennifer Gray said about the signs.
Senior engineering major Kamran Adlparvar said executive candidates Sean Zent and Larry Toney’s sign, which displays a Victoria’s Secret model, caught his eye the most.
Adlparvar and Geisler also said that Haberstroh and Bolin’s farmers market sign, which reads, “Who doesn’t want a farmers market brought on campus? Communists … that’s who. We will bring you what you want,” wasn’t very effective.
“It seems like they don’t know what communism is,” Geisler said. “The farmers market is a communist concept … with the community coming together for the greater good.”
