Require Iowa State University's Student Activities Center to go through their own event authorization process for every semester's poster sale. Additionally, require the event authorization process to be completed for all other ISU-sponsored events.


Require Iowa State University's Student Activities Center to go through their own event authorization process for every semester's poster sale. Additionally, require the event authorization process to be completed for all other ISU-sponsored events.
The Issue
It is hypocritical for Iowa State to require student organizations to align their missions and events with the university's policies and values if they do not hold the university-sponsored events to the same standards. It is also inconsistent for the university to, for example, require freshmen to take AlcoholEdu while selling posters that promote irresponsible drinking, or require students to take Title IX training to lower rates of sexual crime, while selling posters that promote the objectification of women. If ISU is truly committed to reducing sexual violence, unsafe drinking, drug use, and other causes, the university should be willing to ensure these actions are not promoted by the university in any setting.
This issue is being brought up because of the consistent depictions of illegal drug usage, irresponsible drinking, and objectification of women in posters sold at the Memorial Union poster sale. Here is an album containing these images. Every semester, these posters are not removed unless students complain.

The Issue
It is hypocritical for Iowa State to require student organizations to align their missions and events with the university's policies and values if they do not hold the university-sponsored events to the same standards. It is also inconsistent for the university to, for example, require freshmen to take AlcoholEdu while selling posters that promote irresponsible drinking, or require students to take Title IX training to lower rates of sexual crime, while selling posters that promote the objectification of women. If ISU is truly committed to reducing sexual violence, unsafe drinking, drug use, and other causes, the university should be willing to ensure these actions are not promoted by the university in any setting.
This issue is being brought up because of the consistent depictions of illegal drug usage, irresponsible drinking, and objectification of women in posters sold at the Memorial Union poster sale. Here is an album containing these images. Every semester, these posters are not removed unless students complain.

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Petition created on February 11, 2015