Abstract

This paper analyzes the uses of public space that can be found on Kutztown University's campus, and on their website. It revolves around the ideas that the university presents to possible students and their family. Through the use of looking at posters, the discovery was found that they may at times be misleading. Things are represented on posters around the campus on alcohol, and general life of the student population. However, it was found that many of these posters used public space as a media for self-glorification and not as a true place for a free exchange of ideas.

Also, the school's website pushes a particular image that is not necessarily the image that is held by all students through the repetitive use of words like diversity, the school further strokes their own ego, and attepmts to make their image more pleasing to prospective students. Finally through the positioning of words on their website, the university attempts to display a false image of where their lolyalties lie, that they belong to academics rather than athletics.

This paper exposes the misuses of public space by Kutztown University. The paper shows how far from the "free exchange of ideas" the school has drifted in their drive to attract intelligent students, and to court their parents for their money.