Adverelations? =/

Any PR major will be quick to correct anyone that says " Isn't public relations and advertising.. uhhh, like the same thing?" NO!

Advertisers sell alcohol and cigarettes to teens, give young girls self esteem issues, and give us the need to buy products we don't well... need!  But public relations oh no, we save puppies and raise money for charities.  We are heroes for companies in their time of crisis.. we are no advertising majors!

Advertisers, they want your money!

PR kids just want to save puppies!

But as adament as PR majors about their field, it is hard to ignore all the courses that begin with ADV we have to take...

We had to get a B or higher to get into the college of communication in ADJ 318J... it claimed to be for PR majors too but we weren't fooled.

Next ADVERTISING research!  Couldn't it have been called PUBLIC RELATIONS research?  And most obvious of all is the Advertisng Planning class we all have to take in which we... wait for it... DO AN ADVERTISNG PLAN BOOK! We learned to buy ads and use guerrilla tactics to draw in vulnerable consumers.  It was very un-pr of us.

ALSO!  There is a graduate program for advertising here but not one for public relations.  If that is favoritism I don't know what it!

So for all thoes public relations majors at the University of Texas it is time for us to mobilize and become a force around campus.  We are no advertising majors! We are better. We are PR!