Advertising Awards

IT used to be that choosing a college was an easy process. In my experience, all it takes is an old sailor telling you "you should go to St. Mary's, they like to sail and there are lots of women there" when you're 12 yrs old. That's all it took! The advice of one old dude, early in the morning, shortly after explaining "you know, if you sniff that airplane glue, you'll get high." Old sailors and dentists LOVE telling kids how to get high, or at least they do if you have long hair.

My point is that times change, and advertising is more important than ever. Prestige TV used to be stuff like M.A.S.H., and now Prestige TV is like...whatever is coming out each week on Disney+ I guess???

But for awhile it was Mad Men, the show about advertising in the 1960s. Prestige TV at one point reflected the greatest interests of Americans: Italian-American crime, Baltimore Crime, White Baltimore Crime in Season 2, Meth, and Advertising! 

Season 4, Episode 6 premiered with the prestigious CLIO Awards, an award show for advertising. Funnily enough, the same night Mad Men would win an Emmy! On the TV show Donny Draper gets super drunk (ofc that's every episode), and then after he gets the award he gets even more drunk, this time with power! Also Pete Campbell has to grovel to get the Ken to return to the ad agency, and any scene with Pete Campbell groveling is peak Prestige TV.

SMCM recently got a taste of that sweet, sweet CLIO action, at the 36th Annual Educational Advertising Awards. It makes sense that higher ed advertising really got into the swing of things in the 1980s as the cost of a college education began to swell.

SMCM brought home the gold for their Giving Tuesday 2020 campaign (which a lot of people sat out on, myself included, via current students asking us not to donate over issues related to racism at the college) and for the dedication ceremony of the new Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland. You can watch the virtual dedication below:

I haven't watched it yet via it's an hour long, but it DOES seem pretty well done. 

The Board of Trustees seems pretty pleased with the results too!

"In acknowledging the recent awards at the May Board of Trustees meeting, Institutional Advancement Committee Chair Gail Harmon said, “This type of third-party validation says that our College’s marketing and branding are on the right track.”

Aren't we all just seeking out a lil prestigious third-party validation in this crazy, mixed up world? I love that they do awards for giveaway shirts as well

"The team also earned a Gold award in the 2020 Collegiate Advertising Awards for the design of a giveaway apparel item for newly admitted students designed by alumna Keely Houk ’17."

They buried the goddam lede!!! Am I wrong in thinking that "giveaway apparel" is like primo marketing, or is that a Web 2.0 mindset? I was always jealous of the amazing designs UMD had for their promo gear. But what do I know!

You can learn more about this Awards program with the contact info below. It looks like they are based in Georgia, which recently made it a lot harder to people to vote!

It's also not too expensive to enter it seems, I might submit the blog for judging next year.

 

Walking to Campus

Stole this photo from the St. Mary's fbook page, via theft.  It comes from the photo archive, the year 1986.  Most of yall reading this probably weren't even alive then. 

I absolutely love that bike shirt.  Rainbow bikes.  I need that shirt.

-Tommy Seahawk

Free T-Shirts

Hey yalls I have two T-Shirts that I want to get rid of (via I have too many T-Shirts and adults don't wear T-Shirts so I need to get rid of them).  They are both SMCMesque.

First is a circa 2010 Relay for Life size M shirt wooo

If you look closely you can see Lego in the corner!

Second is a Seahawks Empowered to Act shirt circa 2009ish size L.

Perfect for anyone who hates rape or sexual assault etc.

How to get a shirt:

• See me sometime in 2011
• Via comments or email tell me why you should get a shirt
• Photoshops/photos are the best way to win

Class of 2013 Shirts

The class of 2013 (inferior to class of 2011 obv.) is selling T-Shirts with Dr. Urgo on them.  They look like this.

These look pretty rad!  The yellow is kinda weird though, it reminds me of both pee and 1970s nostalgia, two things which I dislike.  Also he should have a hat maybe via hats are great.

They cost $13 dollars which is an unlucky number so possibly you should avoid buying these.  But if you don't believe in LUCK then you can probably buy one via Joe Santangelo.  Email him.

Also, not really sure what 'el presidente' means.  I think it may be in a foreign language but I cannot read it so I believe this may cause the shirt to have limited appeal.

I also imagine that if I found this in a thrift store and didn't understand the context I would think it was teh greatest thing ever.

New Class of 2011 Shirts

New Class of 2011 shirts are available to order!  For 12$ you can have one of these radtastic shirts.

You may remember our other class shirts, along the lines of 'on a scale of 1 to 10, we're an 11'.  These are different obviously, and I think I like them more.

Tehehe I love jokes about STIs!  You may also remember that the class of 2008 (or maybe 2009???) used a similar joke for their shirts.  Something along the lines of 'I got my crabs at St. Mary's'.  But it's a fun joke, and pretty relevant since we had our crab feast at Jurgo's house.

I think I'll probably buy one.  They are 12$.

7 Wonders T Shirt

Yall check out this shirt that is for sale. Dunno who sells it though. Kinda remember people selling it at the end of last semester, but also saw Kristina Schiller looking sad/bored/sober selling them at Hawktoberfest.

Don’t really like black shirts to be honest. Also kinda confused by the whole Frisbee golf aspect of the shirt, don’t really know anyone that has played a Frisbee golf course using the 7 wonders of St. Mary’s. Seems like an okay shirt though. I will rate it ‘I would buy it for 5$’.

School is over!

School is over yall. If you are still doing homework/not drinking then you are doing this whole summer thing wrong. I'll be here til Friday probably.

Shirts! Gonna try to make a stencil tomorrow probably or something, who knows. Feeling real lazy now that school is over. We'll see what happens. Chances are I'll have a stencil and spraypaint, and you should provide a shirt.

Hey everybody have a great summer, I met a lot of new people this year and all were pretty sweet!

T Shirts

I was talking to Sam Rockler today, she said I should make T Shirts for/about the blog that you are currently reading/ignoring.

What do yall think about T Shirts. I used to really like T Shirts in high school, but recently I've lost my love for them.

Was thinking about selling the shirts for 20$ at coffeehouse via merch stand at shows.

EDIT: The above is an unfunny joke and they would cost no where near that much

What kind of shirt would yall want to see

• a picture of Tom Seahawk smiling
• the triumphant return of 'I pregame J-Board' shirts via Ben Casto
• white v-neck w/SMCM LOL BLOG spraypainted on via stencil
• picture of dean bayless surrounded with hearts

If one of you cool kids comes up with a sweet idea I'll be sure to get you a shirt for frees

Cook's T Shirts

I didn't realize this until I went last night, but Cook's is selling their T Shirts for 5$ each. I think I got the last medium, and it seemed like all was left were XLs, but try your luck!

This also explains why I suddenly saw I sizable portion of the campus wearing the shirts within the past week.

Capture the Flag

Capture the flag this Friday at the WC Firepit. I hope this isn't replacing the Intramural Capture the Flag, because they always give out free t shirts and I love free t shirts. Either way, this one will have hot chocolate which isn't as cool as free t shirts, but it's still kinda cool.

The Great St. Mary's T Shirt Sale

I happened upon this facebook group a week ago or so by chance, and found it interesting. A bunch of kids (most of whom seem to be First Years) put together a facebook group where they are trying to buy a shirt that they designed. I don't really like the shirt because the bird on the back is clearly an Eagle, and no one gives a fuck what your SAT score was. But, I like the idea of people putting together an order for a T Shirt that they made, it's very cute. Sooo good luck!