The Wall

Walking through the commons on the University of Idaho campus, one may pass a wall which is packed with politically charged papers and posters, placed in this proximity to the classrooms undoubtedly to provide students with s proper excuse for postponing their preparation for, and even their attendance to, professionally presided classes. The content of this wall is regularly maintained with varying themes of political issues, parties and opinions that give me the impression that different parties vie for the coveted spot; I imagine they pay for slips of paper on which they write their names, toss into a hat and have a weekly drawing for who is next to bombard the student body with bias information (if the process in anyway represents most governmental procedure the hat is then tucked away while the thrid party hat owner then takes donations to fund the hat, awarding the next week to most helpful group).
This wall has been home to everything from "facts" about gay marriage to "facts" about conservatism. Reading the wall and discussing it with my Fiancee is probably the extend of my political involvement. Many people may claim that I do not care what happens to our country, or that it is unpatriotic to not be involved in the politics that, for better or worse, keep our country going. I am not against politics or people who choose to be intimately involved in the going ons of government, and I am not someone who refuses to vote and then complains about the president or legislature that is passed. I am against the wall.
I understand the goal to better inform the voting public of today about topics that are prevalent in our political system, such as the health care bill or the beliefs of various parties, but I feel that the wall is neither the proper place, or proposed information in which to accomplish this. First of all, the information is terribly slanted towards certain views and the bias opinion interferes with the objectivity and efficiency of "facts". Secondly, the posters are often graffitied by people with opposing views in slanderous ways, and then those remarks are responded to by students wishing to reposess the poster for its original purpose, so that they become less about informing and more about disagreeing and fighting over who is right. This leads me to believe that the wall is creating more of a division among who is republican or democrat or right or wrong then it is helping to unify our country under the banner of decency and respect for one another's beliefs. The last reason I am against said wall is because all students at the University of Idaho (the wall's target demographic) have access to the internet through campus computers, and if they really wanted to know this stuff they would research it themselves instead of believing an invisible group of people who are claiming to post fact. Anyone who uses the convenience of the wall to decide their politcal beliefs instead of figuring out the truth and their own opinion on matters might as well use the National Enquirer as a staple guide in their life. I advocate political awareness, but I do not condone the wall, the barrier that it is forming among students, or the unquestioned consumption of "facts" on brightly colored wall-paper.