Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Culture Jamming of Manhattanville







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In my culture jamming of Manhattanville, I took a picture of Manhattanville's Reid Castle with some students on the quad that said "Manhattanville College" on the bottom. This picture/advertisement that has been shown on the website is to make the school appealing, especially having the castle being the center of attention, the weather and trees looking beautiful and students frolicking on the quad; what could be better than that when looking for a college to attend? But that picture can be deceiving, full tuition to this school costs about 46,000$ a year, which is a hefty sum of money, especially in these dire economic circumstances our country is in. The "school" and living parts of Manhattanville don't even involve the castle either. Recently, all student events have been banned from being in the castle, so in fact, the picture is actually very deceiving. In my short time here at Manhattanville, I have seen people relaxing on the quad a total of 3 times! Looking at that picture Manhattanville looks like a friendly environment where people can relax and hang out, but that is not the case at all. So in my 'culture jamming' of this photo I wrote, instead of Manhattanville College on the bottom, i wrote "High School" because going to this school feels like you are at a high school. It is so clicky, jocks hang out with only the jocks, dancers with the dancers, theater kids with theater kids and so on. I feel like i stepped out of high school at the end of 2009 and stepped into another high school. I also included a little blurb on the top that says "pay thousands of dollars for education in a castle". I wrote this keeping in mind that i have been in the castle a total of 6 times since I've been at Manhattanville, and 2 times were because part of my tuition wasn't payed properly. This is misrepresentation of Manhattanville's campus and what it is actually about.



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