Poster Slam 2013

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Volume 103, Issue 23

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ampus is littered with posters from candidates desperately vying for your vote and making a decision can be tough. Now you can check out what our team of professional poster critics have to say about each candidate. We don’t care about the actual races; we’re just here to ridicule some posters. Our panel this year is: Darcy Ropchan, Ross Vincent, Madeline Smith, Ryan Bromsgrove, Jennifer Polack and Adrian Lahola-Chomiak.

Darcy: First up we have Petros Kusmu: “In Petros we trust.” Adrian: It looks like Petros is trying to sell some wonder tonic or something like that. Ryan: It cures what ails ya. Do you have achy joints? Ross: I’m skeptical. Will this make me more attractive to women? Darcy: I’d say that out of all the presidential candidates, this is the most interesting poster. Adrian: It’s definitely the most unique. Ryan: It kind of looks like a football field. Darcy: He’s got the U of A colours — the green and gold Ross: It looks cool, but I think it kind of blends into the background because everything is green and gold on campus. And he doesn’t really pop because he’s green as well. Darcy: He’s also handing out the Petros dollar bills on campus. Madeline: He’s green there too. Ryan: His general campaign theme seems to be money.

Adrian: ‘I will take money from you.’ Or is it ‘give me money?’ Ross: Yeah what is he saying? Is he money? Adrian: He’s on the money. Ryan: I think he wanted an excuse to use “in Kusmu we trust.” Ross: Is he implying that he’s God? Everyone: Uh-oh. Ross: Not only is he God, but he deserves to be on the dollar bill as well — which we don’t have in Canada. Jenn: Maybe he’ll implement a dollar bill. Ross: Petros bucks? Adrian: So he’s advocating for combining church and state. That’s the whole message of the poster. Darcy: His votepetros.com link just takes you to his Facebook page, so he doesn’t even have a website. Ryan: Just like last year. But he does have that 30-page green and gold paper. Green and gold, guys, get it? Because we’re at the University of Alberta. Madeline: His platform points are kind of hiding at the bottom of his poster, but I suppose his face is more important to have up there. Adrian: I didn’t even know there were