Funny Papers
As diverse as your student body is, there’s one thing they have in common. All of them spend at least a certain amount of time in the bathroom, and they’re nothing if not a captive audience during that time.
During my freshman and sophomore year, girls in my residence halls took this opportunity to post magazine articles and pictures thought to be of general interest on the inside of the stall doors. Thus a bathroom visitor could scan a blurb on ab exercises, a bit about new summer novels and skim the Guy of the Month’s interview during her necessary delay. It wasn’t deep stuff, but it was better than the blank door, and then we could all discuss the Guy of the Month with equal knowledge.
As the Chronicle of Higher Education has observed, campus health centers have also taken advantage of this opportunity, and publish periodic newsletters, which are posted on the inside of restroom doors. In addition to offering helpful information, the newsletters have clever names: Stall Street Journal (Arizona State University, Dartmouth University and Colgate University); Tissue Issue (Northern Kentucky University) and the Stall Seat Journal (University of Virginia) are examples.
After all, if there’s anything you can do to keep cellphones and iPods in backpacks in the bathroom, it’s probably worth it. (Have you fished enough of those out of the plumbing yet?)
