Election Observations – T-shirt Review
The elections aren’t about the fashion choices of the candidates but the t-shirts for the various campaigns this year suck, and they suck hard.
True Blue – Actually has the cleanest of the shirts. They’re okay. [Not an endorsement of the team. I’m just saying that their shirts aren’t atrocious.]
OAT – Well, if day-glo lime-green and pink is the choice that suits you, okay, but I don’t want to look like an irradiated watermelon.
The Red Team – I’m not sure who they are but I got accosted by someone in a red t-shirt last week with what looked like Communist propaganda imagery on it. Seriously, check these shirts out if you see one of their reps on campus. It’s very Mao of them.
iGov – Apple is wrapping its claws even tighter around college-age Americans with their new student government team. iGov, with crap indie music as well. Apparently, they don’t believe in shirts or color.
Students First – I think they’re the purple team in this race but I’ve seen a couple different colors on their shirts. In principle, their silhouette idea is good but in action it looks terrible. Mostly, I’m not sure what I’m looking at even though I know that I’m supposed to see the ASUO office. The trashcan silhouette is a nice touch though.
Side-note: In a non-T-shirt related note, Deborah Bloom has apparently decided that she is above last names and is running for the Senate Journalism Seat under the singularity, Deborah. This according to the ASUO Voter’s Guide.
[…] I only wish that while he was reading ASUO’s scholarship policy, he was also noticing their multi-party student elections, the ones with 86 (!) candidates; or that he had noticed ASUC-Berkeley’s system of […]
The business school dean ?
You leave that to me and my good friend, Mr. Jim Bean…
I need some help to get the Duck mascot drunk and put a skull and swoosh for crossbones t-shirt on him and get him to run through campus. It would be a good thing to post on Youtube. Any ideas on how to pull that off ?
(or rather reminiscent of)
McCarrel/Baldwin’s campaign shirt can be seen here. And surely Kallaway and Kassa’s shirt is more stylistically reminiscent to our the ubiquitous president, despite its color.
I’m pretty sure Deborah’s nom de plume is the fault of whoever they forced into laying out the voters guide.
You didn’t even let us come out with a commercial that features an indie group yet, just you wait!
iGov.
“Constant inanity” is more like it.
Y’all’s ASUO elections sound like constant insanity. Why don’t we have this at Vandy? Why?
True Blue has got the right idea. Their campaign appears authentic and pure. Their marketing is predictable and unfortunately people like that. I see more True Blue than anything else on campus. The OAT is stretching to be awesome with their “irradiated watermelon” shirts. If they win my faith in the power of silly fads will most certainly be reinforced.
Both True Blue and Students First had their Exec’s names spelled incorrectly.