MC 307 Team
Assignment
Legal &
Ethical Issues in SUD Promo Materials
You've landed the job of director
of publications for the State
University of Dilworth, and have
developed a promotional plan for
the coming year that includes a
variety of elements. Prepare a
memo for Milo
Hatzenbeuhler, Ph.D., vice
president for
university
advancement, outlining
the legal and ethical issues that
should be considered in
implementing each of these
projects.
Some
of the projects have major legal
or ethical complications. Others
may have no problems attached.
Please address each of them by
number.
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Develop a new "First look"
brochure — to include long,
medium and CU
(close-up) photos of
students in classes, at
football games, in dorm rooms,
in library and participating in
activities such as dances and
volunteer programs (Big
Brother/Big Sister with
assigned "little brothers" or
"little sisters").
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Design and produce a series of
ads for placement in weekly and
daily newspapers. Theme is "why
I chose SUD." Will include
photos and testimonials from
current students.
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Produce three radio spots using
the same messages as in #2,
with the students repeating the
same thoughts themselves.
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Hire a photographer to take
photos for these and other
projects.
The images will be
maintained for media publicity,
publications, advertising,
posters and other undetermined
uses.
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Reprint and distribute
favorable articles
that have
appeared in Time,
Fortune, Minnesota Monthly and
The Forum.
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Develop a
newsletter for staff,
"Recruiting Is Everybody's
Business,”
that will include
a "recruiter of the month"
biographical
profile honoring an individual
who has made an outstanding
effort to sign up new students,
along with appropriate
job-oriented cartoons (Dilbert,
Cathy, Zits).
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Promote SUD’s
100 percent placement
record in a
news release that quotes Job
Service Minnesota's research
data on "hot jobs of the coming
10 years in Minnesota."
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Produce a series of direct-mail
postcards with photos of
personalities whom high school
students admire, with messages
like these:
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"You don't have to be Kevin Garnett to make the team at SUD." |
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"You don't have to be Gwen Stefani
to sing in the SUD choir."
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"You don't have to be Coldplay
to be a hit at SUD."
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"You don't have to be Bill
Gates to afford
to go to
SUD."
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Develop a
direct-mail fund raiser for
the SUD
scholarship program —
illustrated with photos of
students whose education would
not have been possible without
these funds.
15 points |
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