Student Handbook: Student Affairs- Posters/Advertising

University of Maine at Fort Kent

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Posters/Advertising

On-campus Organizations

  1. All on-campus organizations, made up of students, employees, or both, may advertise their activities on campus grounds. All posters or such materials must include the name of the organization sponsoring the activity and must be approved by Student Affairs before being placed on display.
  2. Materials should be posted in areas commonly designated for posters and placards on campus (i.e., bulletin boards). Advertisements should not be posted on walls, windows, or other glass surfaces and should never cover safety signs or equipment.
  3. Posters must not contain any of the following inappropriate content:
    1. Fighting Words - which are words intentionally directed toward another person which incite him/her to immediately retaliate physically;
    2. Defamation;
    3. Obscenity, which must meet all three parts of the following three-part test:
      1. Whether ‘the average person, applying contemporary community standards’ would find that the work, ‘taken as a whole,’ appeals to ‘prurient interest’
      2. Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law, and
      3. Whether the work, ‘taken as a whole,’ lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. Pornography is not necessarily obscene;
    4. Child pornography;
    5. Perjury;
    6. Blackmail;
    7. Incitement to imminent lawless action;
    8. True threats;
    9. Solicitations to commit crimes;
    10. Plagiarism; and
    11. Treason
  4. All advertisements must adhere to the UMFK policies related to the advertisement of alcohol-related events. (See ‘Alcohol Advertisement Policy section VI).
  5. All posted material must comply with all applicable laws and University policies.
  6. Advertisements must be removed promptly after they have expired.
  7. The University reserves the right to remove postings that do not comply with the requirements of this policy.

On-campus Individuals

  1. Students and staff of the University must follow the same rules outlined for On-Campus Organizations.
  2. Individuals must indicate their name at the bottom of each posted item.
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