Religious flyers on campus cause annoyance
Lyndsey Hewitt
Issue date: 2/4/10 Section: Perspectives
As an atheist individual, lately I've taken notice to some of the church flyers around campus. Not only are they completely covering some of the bulletin boards around campus, but they are also stuck on trash cans, doors, and the sides of buildings among other random places. In my opinion, this is completely unnecessary.
If a student wants to find a place of worship, they will seek it out. There is no need to put it in the faces of everyone, everywhere on campus. How about saving some trees and finding a more creative, paperless way to advertise? I suppose that goes for any organizations on campus, but I think the screaming religious advocates on campus a few times each semester is enough for any student.
According to a study recently conducted by UCLA, many college students drift away from their religious upbringings after being in college.
52 percent of students said they attended religious services frequently the year before entering college, but by their junior year, attendance had dropped to 29 percent. Advertising effectively is all about promoting to the perfect demographic, right?
Well, perhaps plastering flyers all over a college campus isn't the best method for advertising for a ministry or church. A student who wishes to remain anonymous when asked how they felt when seeing the flyers simply said that "they're vaguely annoying and I usually just ignore them."
As a student who isn't interested in going to a church to practice religion whatsoever, I just find it annoying when I'm looking at the bulletin boards and tacked all over the place are a bunch of churches that apparently need more attendees.
In a distance of about 10 feet in the lower PUB there are a total of 5 bulletin boards. I counted almost 20 flyers for different church groups.
Perhaps all these campus churches should work out some sort of advertising rotation schedule so they're not all piled together at once making it confusing or overwhelming to people who may or in my case, may not be interested.
If a student wants to find a place of worship, they will seek it out. There is no need to put it in the faces of everyone, everywhere on campus. How about saving some trees and finding a more creative, paperless way to advertise? I suppose that goes for any organizations on campus, but I think the screaming religious advocates on campus a few times each semester is enough for any student.
According to a study recently conducted by UCLA, many college students drift away from their religious upbringings after being in college.
52 percent of students said they attended religious services frequently the year before entering college, but by their junior year, attendance had dropped to 29 percent. Advertising effectively is all about promoting to the perfect demographic, right?
Well, perhaps plastering flyers all over a college campus isn't the best method for advertising for a ministry or church. A student who wishes to remain anonymous when asked how they felt when seeing the flyers simply said that "they're vaguely annoying and I usually just ignore them."
As a student who isn't interested in going to a church to practice religion whatsoever, I just find it annoying when I'm looking at the bulletin boards and tacked all over the place are a bunch of churches that apparently need more attendees.
In a distance of about 10 feet in the lower PUB there are a total of 5 bulletin boards. I counted almost 20 flyers for different church groups.
Perhaps all these campus churches should work out some sort of advertising rotation schedule so they're not all piled together at once making it confusing or overwhelming to people who may or in my case, may not be interested.
