Posters 2009
Welcome John Packman, photo editor of the Dal Gazette and in general a good guy, as a guest pundit reviewing candidate posters.
punditry.ca regulars will add their comments next to his. You can add yours using the comment section below.
(also photo credit to John Packman)
President
Gregory Debogorski
John:
Same crazy amount of text. Same chances of winning.
Also, try for a 24-hour study space before machine, weld and metal fabrication shops.
My father always said: Learn to walk before you run or build a large industrial workshop.
Mike:
Visually appealing and eye-catching. The use of colour reminds one of revolutions of days past.
1. Students ignorant of the DSU can’t get involved? Dude, I’ve been watching election campaigns and results for 9 years. Trust me, not only can they get involved, they can win executive positions.
2. It’s not that I’m an elitist, it’s just that I’m better than most people.
3. I can just imagine a world where the people who care most about a given issue always get their way… you know what that means, free ice cream bar in the SUB!
4 & 5 are basically the same point. I personally advocate doing this by force. But letting students run a food service? I’ve spent some time in the Management building, and unless you’re talking a lemonade stand I’d rather entrust food services to the Dawgfather.
6. Hahahahaha, probably not a bad idea.
7. Nova Scotia Community College, Dalhousie campus.
8. No jokes: I actually think this would be cool, at least on some issues.
9. BRING BACK THE DRINK TICKETS!
10. You can lead a student to the Union, but you can’t make him care.
Eric Snow
John:
It’s spring. More snow isn’t what people want to see. Logo’s a bad start.
Last year’s picture? Take a new picture. People need to see your stress lines of experience.
Shannon Zimmerman
John:
The picture looks like a job fair advertisement but it’s clean. Three words, a name and website.
Next time, cut the word sustainable. I’m not so sure about community either.
VP Education
Edgar Burns
John:
Your photo’s too dark. If I can’t see you, I can’t trust you.
Rob Leforte
John:
He’s got an apple. Even his apple is campaigning for him. Nuff said.
VP Internal
Mark Hobbs
John:
Why are you so washed out and neon?
Did you forget to put “Mark Hobbs for Dalhousie Student Union Vice President Internal” and then added at the last minute.
Also, too many words. Three adjectives max.
Craig Jennex
John:
It’s good. Not joking.
Pictures, few words, letting the reader infer you’re experienced rather than saying “experienced.”
Switch to Gmail and you have my vote.
VP Student Life
Kris Osmond
John:
Some spray paint shows he’s got cred.
His smile shows he’s approachable.
His lack of promises and platform shows he’s running against no one.
Board of Governors
Janet Conrad
John:
She’s got DSU experience! She’s been to all our campuses and has experience at all of them! That’s three campuses! Get the fuck out of here. She listens too? Holy shit.
Adam Harris
John:
Weird picture of you dancing. I didn’t need that.
Some creepy motivational poster that says vision with a picture of a sunset. I don’t know what that means. Are you celebrating the fact you have sight?
Too much stuff, not enough patience. Next.
Will Horne
John:
“The Will of the people?” Really?
You look kind of pissed off in your picture. Work on that.
Also sustainability? Sustainability? Work on that.
Frederic Perron-Welch
John:
Next up, Frederic Perron-Welch. First off, too many names.
Shorten.
Freddy P or something. Next, what’s with the Spanish Flag as a backdrop.
But I like your confident look. Also sticking to the classic three words. No website? Whatever. You’ve got vision, passion and experience. That’s specific enough for me.
Vikram Rai
John:
Jesus Vikrum. Too many things. We’ve got some graphs, got a picture of flowers in front of the engineering building, got some quotes in there, microsoft-word-style headers, a picture of the Tupper, you wearing sun glasses when you have your picture taken.
Dude. Too many things. Just say “Vote for Vikrum” and I’ll vote for you.
Senate Representative
Meredith Evans
Shane Simms
- Glenn Blake
John:
Three positions, three people, zero promises.
I love it.
Meredith doesn’t even have a website. Just find her on facebook.
Kudos to Glenn Blake who has no poster. No poster is even better than no promises.
Dude, I was into “Vote Shane Simms for undergraduate senate rep!” before they were cool.
… You sure it’s not a band? He’s just a “$5 COVER BEFORE 10:00″ away from a show at Gus’ Pub.
That picture for Shannon is terrible. The angle, lens distortion and unfortunate choice of footwear makes her look like an apple with #2s for legs.
@Indielitist Coward
Let’s remember we’re talking about real people and keep our comments out of the first grade. Shannon looks great. Her poster is clear, crisp and professional. Most importantly, it’s presidential.
@professional student
Are you sure we’re talking about real people? Because with the angle, lens distortion, and unfortunate choice of footwear I could have sworn we were talking about an apple with #2s for legs. Presidential? It looks like Dal ad copy to me, which screams “frosh”, if you were wondering.
I’m sure Shannon is a nice person. I’m sure she doesn’t REALLY look like an apple with pencil legs. I suspect that on some level (I’ve never met her, spoken to her, or heard of her until I saw the poster so I can’t be certain) she’s qualified for the position.
This is about the poster though, and the poster looks bad. Not Ed Burns or Mark Hobbs bad. Not Shane Simms bad, and not the “I just dumped 5 metric tonnes of clip art on this poster” bad of Vikram or Adam. It still looks bad.
The only people who care enough to defend the candidates are usually friends of the candidate or campaign managers/aides/what have you. If you’re the latter I hope you’d be upfront with us and disclose that…
Man Meredith is smokin’.
Gingers get my vote.
Will of the people… would it have been better or worse to have the slogan “Ready WILLing and Able”?
I’d hit it.
Me too.
I can’t believe that finally a year has come when a hot lumberjack is running for DSU. Please don’t trim too much Craig; can I drop the f bomb on here? He’s hot as fuck.
@Hot for Meredith
Meredith’s picture doesn’t do her justice. She’s prettier in person.
If only Shane had put the word “Linger” on his poster…