A reader writes:

A small observation:

I was visiting Penn State this week to give a talk and noticed several copies of the following poster prominently displayed around campus.

The word "HATE" is blazed across the center of the poster with two stylized hands (drawn in different colors) pointing at each other. At the top and bottom of the poster is the chilling imperative,

"REPORT IT."

Contact information (phone, email, for some campus office) follows.

If only they had used a Cyrillic, Stalinesque font, the effect would have been complete.

I couldn't justify stealing one of these beauties
(who knows, I might get reported). But if you have
any readers at PSU, you may want to coax them to
send you a digital photo. It would look good on
Critical Mass.

UPDATE: A PSU alum writes,

For historical perspective, PSU had a similar campaign when I was there (89-96). This time the poster said "This is serious, so are we." It was adopted at the beginning of one of their pushes to remove "acts of intolerance." It was probably the most "diverse" set of nasty and rotten epithets around. And that may have been its downfall. Grumblings were still heard since they featured not only what we were told to expect (though never really heard) from the College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom, but also little nasties like "Born Again Bigot" "Whitey" and "Jesus Freak." The posters didn't last long (I can't imagine why). Unfortunately, I don't have a copy for posterity. I imagine these new "Report it!" posters will last longer, since they don't point fingers at the wrong set of "haters."