[Cialug] Meeting next week - topic idea

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2010-01-19 at 15:36:01, Todd Walton wrote:
>But I want someone to explain where picture people come from. Most
>universities or colleges put them on their promotional materials.
>Who are these people? Do they exist in some alternate universe? Are
>they from cyberspace? How do they get these jobs? Is their a
>consulting firm somewhere that hires these picture people? They're
>always attractive and clean and so... non-specific. That's a
>hallmark.

I can't answer this question in general, but here at Drake the "picture 
people" are taken from the actual student population. Drake is small 
enough that i often recognize people in our advertisements as current or 
former students. I think the marketing department chooses them, mostly 
from the ranks of Journalism students.

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Daniel A. Ramaley
Network Engineer 2

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