Student Council’s efforts to push back the date on which students can first sign their leases has been met from the start with resistance from local landlords, who reasonably do not want to hold off on signing leases and voluntarily put themselves at a competitive disadvantage. Given that its campaign is now limited to educating students about singing leases, the compromises Council managed to achieve with two major landlords are important because they ensure students will have ample opportunities to hear Council’s argument and every student will at least have to sign a document containing those points before signing a lease.
That said, when it launches its joint publicity plan with those landlords, Council should be careful not to use student funds to advertise the landlords’ properties. Any advertisement containing the names of those landlords or their properties is an advertisement, even if it says not to sign a lease until later.
The off-Grounds housing forum Council proposed is also redundant — a housing info session already exists, and Student Council should bring its campaign to that event, rather than providing more advertising for the few landlords participating in its forum.
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