The Callbacks' Last Jam:

Performance posters here tend to be selfserving. A corner of a kiosk is the closest thing Harvard has to a theater marquee. You can get your name on a poster. Maybe even your picture. Presto--you're famous!

The Callbacks took the ego-massage a step further with the teasers for their latest concert. The posters urged students to spend a weekend evening with [insert Callback member's name.] Of course, the name was in big print.

Trouble is, most of us probably had no idea who any of these people were. Stay tuned for Crimson comp posters urging students to spend a weekend night with [insert editor's name in big print.]

Mixed Messages:

SafetyWalk is a great service, an important service. I've used it. I recommend it.

But I also recommend that the organization recruit a poster editor. The latest SafetyWalk teaser is a bit ambiguous. "Look Both Ways. Use a Condom. Call SafetyWalk," it reads. Taken one way, it's a list of fundamental precautions. In the wrong hands, though, it becomes a frightening prescription for behavior--something, perhaps, that might be detailed in an Inside Edge how-to feature.

Yes, Safety Walk's poster may well describe a typical Friday night for the guy who gets around. "Look Both Ways." Get to the bar safely, or you won't have any fun. "Use a Condom." Nuff said. "Call SafetyWalk." You wouldn't want a mugger to spoil a perfectly good evening, would you?

What would AALARM say? Maybe we'll find out in the next poster.

Crimson Editorial Chair Joanna M. Weiss '94 offers homage to Grunblings.