Re: CSICOP: Friday the 13th Superstition Bash
SkeptInq@aol.com
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:55:56 EST
In a message dated 10/27/98 1:13:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, sofkam@rpi.edu
writes:
<< --On Nov. 13 set up a table at a busy dining hall with a ladder for people
to
>walk under, open umbrellas, spill salt, walk-by a real or plastic cat, have
>thirteen people sitting at a table, all the while stepping on cracks....with
>the message that skeptics laugh in the face of superstition. It will
attract
>attention and be a great recruiter. Sign up interested students and
introduce
>your group to the campus.
I can attest to this methods success in bringing out the press. For 4 years,
ISUNY held meetings with great speakers, they were all free and open to the
public, we sent out press reports and the result was the occational mention
in the calendar section, and twice local newspapers put us in the
``lifestyles'' section (where the local astrologers and entertainment people
are profiled).
We held one Friday the 13th party, and 4 television stations showed up,
with cameras and put us on TV.
On the down side, now we were shown on TV along with all the other
Friday the 13th nuts.
Mike
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/