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Chalking Guidelines

Chalk may be used by students, faculty, and staff for creating messages on approved surfaces on the University campus in compliance with the following requirements:

1. Messages may be written only on flat horizontal surfaces of sidewalks.

2. No messages may be written on vertical surfaces, including but not limited to walls, buildings, pillars, posts, benches, doors, trash receptacles, or kiosks.

3. No messages may be written on walkways other than sidewalks. Such areas include but are not limited to stairs, building porches and entryways, outdoor athletic facilities, or memorial garden walkways.

4. Chalked messages may not deface decorative symbols or sculptures located on walkways (e.g., O K fountain, University seal, sundial, engraved text in concrete).

5. Messages must be written in chalk that is water-soluble. (Approved chalk includes commercially sold "sidewalk chalk" but does not include spray chalk or artist pastels.)

August 1998
Administrative Council

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