Red Alert: Department of Communication Studies Sweatshirt Design Contest!

This is exciting. I know sometimes when you preface a message by declaring that it is exciting, it may seem like it is not actually that exciting, but that is not the case here.  So, prepare to be excited.  Ready?

I am happy to announce the Department of Communication Studies Sweatshirt Design Contest! Ta da! Here’s the scoop: In the past, every few years we have had students design sweatshirts for our honor society, Lambda Pi Eta. This has always been fun (and special props to Kelly Sanders and Natalie Borges, the two most dedicated wearers of LPH sweatshirts!), but this year we thought we would do something a bit different. We would create department sweatshirts instead! That way everyone can wear them and proudly show off their membership in the COMS department! Ta da! And in order to create department sweatshirts, we will have a contest. TA DA!

Here are the details: We are looking for designs for a department sweatshirt. The winner of the sweatshirt design contest will receive the fame and glory of USF Communication Studies majors, alums, and faculty wearing their winning design, and, as if that is not enough, the winner will also receive a free sweatshirt! Here are the requirements:

• Submissions must come from current members of the University of San Francisco community or USF Communication Studies department alums.
• The design must mention, in some form, “Department of Communication Studies” and “University of San Francisco” (abbreviations or acronyms are fine).
• The design must be appropriate for an academic department at a Jesuit university.
• Submissions should be sent to me at edoohan@usfca.edu in a PDF format.
• Design submissions are due by September 15th.

The plan is to have a final slate of designs that will be put to the vote on our facebook fan page (http://www.facebook.com/USFDONSCOMS). This will take place in September, sweatshirts will be sold during the first two weeks of October, and distributed before the end of fall semester.  We don’t know the price yet, but we will keep the cost as reasonable as possible.

I wanted to make the announcement now so that interested students and alums can work on the design over these long summer months. If you have a design finished in advance of the September 15th deadline, feel free to pass it along! Have fun with this and contact me if you have any questions.

Let the designs start pouring in… (Please).