Student Action ran the first large-scale flyering run of the year.

Party Flyering is a reasonably pointless activity. It probably alienates just as many people as it impresses. I certainly doubt it gets any votes for candidates, except for a possibly larger desire to Block vote. And since SA and APPLE can roughly flyer in equal amounts, the noise cancels out.

The main reason, I think, is a sort of skirmish war. Flyering is a good way to teach Candidates what campaigning really entails, as well as molding the volunteers into a devoted force. It also is a good way to test the strength of The Enemy; I doubt Cal-SERVE will flyer, and that says something.

The strange thing about SA's run is that they reused accomplishments from last year. I doubt this is because they have no accomplishments this year, or that last year's was so good they're bringing them back for bragging rights.

I suspect that my run with APPLE-Engineering on Sunday was the prime mover. Student Action has always depended on their speed and organization, but so far I've beat them to First Flyering and getting party buttons out. (Actually, most of the credit for Sunday's flyering belongs to Anthony Paganini.) Granted, we only did four-five Engineering buildings, but SA is always first to flyer. This must've been an embarassment. So they probably rushed out what templates they had available-- IE, last year's,-- and posted those. The reaction speed is impressive, but I don't understand why they couldn't make new ones.Email This Post!