Re: [UC] yes, virginia, there IS a marketing scheme
UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN wrote: from today's dp: http://tinyurl.com/2wz9op A FRESH COAT OF PAINT GOES A LONG WAY Signs' makeover seen as deterrent for potential criminal activity on Penn's campus -- by Jimmy Tobias Frank Carroll wrote: CONNECT?!?!? And here I was thinking the signs indicated the boundary. yes, penn prof michael larice is quoted saying that the signs 'mark territorial boundaries'. and penn's facilities/real estate spokesman andrew zitcer says they indicate branding. synonymous with 'clean and safe,' he says. earlier this year (april) zitcer wrote an article in the city paper (http://tinyurl.com/ypez5j) wondering why on earth all those white stickers were appearing, the ones that said THIS IS WEST PHILLY. UNIVERSITY CITY IS A MARKETING SCHEME. (http://tinyurl.com/yr9gur). zitcer couldn't figure out what they meant by marketing, or why the stickers were suddenly appearing. it was all very provoking and confusing to him. but, no matter. he ended that article saying he didn't lay awake at night thinking about what to call the neighborhood. and now here he is, in the dp, wide awake and clear-headed, explaining the new penn/uc-branding that's been painted on 4 railway bridges looming over the main gateways to our neighborhood. .. UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN [aka laserbeam®] [aka ray] SERIAL LIAR. CALL FOR RATES. It is very clear on this listserve who these people are. Ray has admitted being connected to this forger. -- Tony West Ray's falsehoods are more sophisticated, more believable -- Tony West You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
Re: [UC] yes, Virginia, there IS a marketing scheme
- Original Message - From: Elizabeth F Campion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: UnivCity@list.purple.com Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [UC] yes, Virginia, there IS a marketing scheme Make us safer? http://tinyurl.com/2wz9op A FRESH COAT OF PAINT GOES A LONG WAY Liz, As Penn asserts its cleaner safer territorial boundaries and the reports of crime roll in 10 years after UCD started cleaning us up, the overwhelming data before the remaining citizens provides an opportunity to analyze and resist the simplistic sound byte news and thinking. I'd like to take the time to make some important comparisons for you and remaining embattled citizens. (While the censored Penn listserv becomes additional frightening data from fortress Penn, serendipitously, the public list now has the potential to be used for civil and reasonable neighborhood discussion. Previously, ingenuous civil discussions were barely possible because of the mean spirited ganging up which depended on various logical fallacies as principal weapon) In the late 1980's when I was new to the field of behavioral health care, a researcher at a conference presented her data and theory about the same cluster of symptoms present in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder present in an overwhelming number of her addicted impoverished women patients. I spoke to her and she first introduced me to her theory about PTSD arising from chronic mini traumas. The effects of this type of consistent non stop trauma has gained attention because of the nature of the Iraq civil war caused by middle class contempt and ignorance. I've even seen PTSD somewhat mentioned in the corporate media used for manipulating consumers. In my opinion, American crime needs to be thought of as the evidence of our own American civil war, this corporate class war, being pushed and supported by a small anointed minority and their elite corporate masters. Features of American poverty cause a series of mini traumas from which individuals do not get periods of relief. It's not so simple as projecting upper middle class jealousy and materialistic hoarding onto the expanding class of dejected, excluded, and oppressed masses. The daily reminders of no health care, no education and above all no hope are some of the real causes that contribute to lashing out from oppressed occupied people. West Philly is routinely called a gangland and millions of people in Baghdad are terrorists according to the propaganda of those wishing to intimidate and oppress. Some of the brutalized individuals turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin as Joni Mitchell pointed out. Others pick up guns and bombs and lash out in crazy inhumane ways in the midst of these civil wars. Now, we citizens can focus on the locations of Penn's territorial boundaries, fresh paint, and intimidating brand to solve the class war according to the vision of the anointed and corporate plutocrats. We citizens can argue about the elements of the Penn brand that will be burnt on our foreheads or we can start connecting the dots. We can be silent as slavery is cloaked and institutionalized for the masses or we can fight back against the vision, the master plan. Liz, I meant to get back to your comments about the conversion of parks (like Clark Park) to all-purpose Rec. centers. It's important to connect this to the concept of fortress Penn, the upscale cleaner and safer compound for rich folks. Corporate Penn and the anointed assert that nothing matters except the cravings and prejudice of people inside the intimidating boundaries. Many pretend those outside the upscale fortress walls are just invisible voiceless animals, and that they should gracefully fill their role in the exploding prison industrial complex. The territorial boundaries, the intimidation, the police, etc reinforce the notion that this is a feudal land and the peasants are serfs not citizens with rights to the quality of life so often asserted to justify oppression by the elite.. Remaining citizens need to consider the degradation, demonization and exclusion faced daily by so many. The anointed deny that children excluded from fee required park activities at age 5, 10, and 15 are relevant to good society. The fact that the same children are excluded from boy scouts, music lessons, etc on a daily basis is also irrelevant to sound byte theories. They believe that the turning to Jesus, heroin, or the gun can be explained with simplistic projections from their own middle class character flaws. Poor people are not inherently jealous of the fool's gold held by the anointed. I spent time in a very poor democracy in West Africa, Ghana, and felt so much safer and connected with people in a much healthier way than any place in plutocratic UCD. The idea that civil war children turn to mugging because they're jealous like the American middle class belongs on Fox news. As I see it, the poetic
Re: [UC] yes, virginia, there IS a marketing scheme
CONNECT?!?!? And here I was thinking the signs indicated the boundary. Frankus Sleek. Edgy. Infinitely flexible. On Sep 6, 2007, at 12:54 PM, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN wrote: from today's dp: http://tinyurl.com/2wz9op A FRESH COAT OF PAINT GOES A LONG WAY Signs' makeover seen as deterrent for potential criminal activity on Penn's campus -- by Jimmy Tobias First impressions are everything. And the crumbly, paint-chipped, 15-year-old signs that once stood above Spruce, Walnut and Chestnut streets were not very impressive. The signs, looming over a few of the main gateways to Penn's campus and University City, were an unattractive welcome for freshmen coming to the University for the first time. But Penn's brand-new, better-than-ever freshman class, as the administration calls its new students, were greeted to campus brand-new and much better signs. New Welcome to University City signs accompanied by Penn's spruced-up logo now adorn the rail bridges that stand at the three original locations. A new sign location was even added to University Avenue. It was time to refresh the paint and update the design, particularly in concert with us expanding into the postal lands, said Mark Kocent, principal planner at the University Architect's Office. But the new signs aren't there just to beautify the campus -- they are partly the product of a continuous, concerted effort of Penn officials to connect the campus to the neighborhood it calls home. The signs are part of a project to brand University City as a place people want to be and a place synonymous with clean and safe, said Andrew Zitcer, a spokesman for Facilities and Real Estate Services. Putting up the new signs indicates [the University's] pride in our neighborhood, he said. Professor of Urban Design and City Planning Michael Larice said branding University City and Penn's campus using signs works to both mark territorial boundaries and influence people's perception of the area. Repainting these signs is showing University City to be a better maintained and new place, he said. Why do you think we paint our houses every few years? There could be a downside to this type of paint job, however. Over the last few years, some West Philadelphians have expressed reservations over Penn's desire to associate itself with University City instead of the less-glamorous area to the west, and the new signs do nothing to combat that perception. But Zitcer says that shouldn't be an issue. We're not trying to get into a debate about boundaries, he said. We are not trying to isolate University City from West Philadelphia. University City is a neighborhood of West Philadelphia; it is a part of West Philadelphia. For her part, Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush said the branding effort has an positive effect on crime, as well; she believes the repainted signs let potential criminals know they are entering a protected neighborhood. [it looks like the article is tagged as having 1 reader's comment, but the comment's not appearing with the article...??] .. UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN [aka laserbeam®] [aka ray] SERIAL LIAR. CALL FOR RATES. It is very clear on this listserve who these people are. Ray has admitted being connected to this forger. -- Tony West Ray's falsehoods are more sophisticated, more believable -- Tony West __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
Re: [UC] yes, Virginia, there IS a marketing scheme
Make us safer? I thought they made us look like an appendage to Target or IKEA. Why pay retail when the attractive nuisances of UC provide better and often easier pickings than lesser neighborhoods? Liz On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 14:18:55 -0400 Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CONNECT?!?!? And here I was thinking the signs indicated the boundary. Frankus Sleek. Edgy. Infinitely flexible. On Sep 6, 2007, at 12:54 PM, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN wrote: from today's dp: http://tinyurl.com/2wz9op A FRESH COAT OF PAINT GOES A LONG WAY ... New Welcome to University City signs accompanied by Penn's spruced-up logo now adorn the rail bridges that stand at the three original locations. ... the new signs aren't there just to beautify the campus -- they are partly the product of a continuous, concerted effort of Penn officials to connect the campus to the neighborhood it calls home. The signs are part of a project to brand University City as a place people want to be and a place synonymous with clean and safe, ... branding University City and Penn's campus using signs works to both mark territorial boundaries and influence people's perception of the area. ... Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush said the branding effort has an positive effect on crime, as well; she believes the repainted signs let potential criminals know they are entering a protected neighborhood. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
Re: [UC] yes, Virginia, there IS a marketing scheme
In a message dated 9/6/2007 3:53:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush said the branding effort has an positive effect on crime, as well; Does this means what the plain English interpretation says it means, or what Ms Rush would like to believe she meant when she said it. she believes the repainted signs let potential criminals know they are entering a protected neighborhood. If they know it, they sure aren't using that knowledge to modify their behavior. Al Krigman Left of Ivan Grozny ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour
