This Friday was last day of classes; every single student in Champlain College was very happy person. At the same time, many of the students were not happy mainly because many of them had many other projects to finish. While many of the students were having great time at spring meltdown, many were in the library working on their papers. But that is live, you can’t always have fun, sometimes you need to do something that is more important. Besides homework and spring meltdown fun activities I saw something interesting this Friday, which is the Red Cross on the back of the free shirts that they were giving away.
What was the meaning of the red cross? What was the meaning “Of Duty” on the t-shirt? Did everyone on campus know the meaning of these words and the sign? To me, when students were coming up with these words and the red cross, they assumed everyone knew the meaning of these words and the red cross. To me, the words and red cross sign can be viewed in many different way, if someone had just shown up to this campus on Friday, this people would have interpret this signs differently. In the book Material Christianity, there are lots of symbolic symbols used. So if you had to ask someone why the red cross was used, I feel like no one would give you the right answer. It could have been used to represent lifeguards or it could have been used to represent international organization that cares for the sick, the wounded or homeless. It could have represented many other things. In the book of Material Christianity, “Christians use religious goods to tell themselves and the world around them that they are Christians”. The point that I’m trying to make here is Champlain College students did not do very good job on what they were trying to saying by using red cross sign and with the word “of duty”. I do not know what the school was trying to say; besides that school was over.
I think the school should have used something else where the t-shirt would have more meaning. This t-shirt that was giving out was complicated shirt to understand. Like in this video, people that wearing t-shirt says, “Give peace a hand” were being friendly to people in the streets. The t-shirt said it all; they were there to give you a handshake. It was easy to tell the meaning of the t-shirt, it’s not like the t-shirts that we got this Friday.
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When I first saw the red cross in the Hauke Courtyard, I kept assuming that it was another Red Cross blood drive. It was not until I went to the Spring Meltdown and got one of the t-shorts that I realized what the symbol was for in the Courtyard. I agree with Enrique in that fact that there could have been another way to promote the Spring Meltdown, it was a creative idea. However, when people see a red cross in today's society it is easy to presume that it is the Red Cross. It is like a lot of symbols that we see.
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