Bulletin Board History

Origin:
Every month, the RAs in the University Tower are required to create a bulletin board for the benefit of the residents on their floor. Emily Crowel, the RA of the 8th Floor, went above and beyond the call of duty to create a bulletin board that had lasting effects throughout the month of March (and beyond; the board is so popular that it will be maintained through the end of the semester). Emily is an unendingly positive person, and she wanted to help raise morale through the dark and rainy month of March, even when her residents were sequestered in their rooms, studying for midterms. Thus, “Stick Together” was born.

Description:
“Stick Together” was a bulletin board based program. At any given time, dozens of post-it notes with kind sayings were stuck to the bulletin board directly outside the elevators which lead to the 8th Floor, so everyone could access them. Above the notes, there were only two instructions: “Take a Post-It Note” and “GIVE it to someone else or KEEP it for yourself!”
Within a few days, almost every door in the residence hall was decorated with at least one post-it note, some doors with as many as thirteen. By the end of the month, sticky notes rained from the sky in a shower of mutual support shared between all the residents of the 8th Floor.
The sticky notes were designed to encompass every

Due to an outpouring of love from the residents of the 8th Floor, the “Stick Together” board has been moved to the hallway, and now residents not only take post-it notes for themselves and their friends but many also add post-it notes of their own creation to further spread positivity amongst their peers. It’s grown much bigger than a mandatory RA assignment; now, it’s part of the fabric of the floor. Residents absolutely love giving anonymous compliments to their floormates with the sticky notes. And who doesn’t love receiving a