We’ve all seen them. They are in every classroom. Teachers point to them on a daily basis. But it was announced earlier this week that nearly every Liberal Arts wall poster on the University of Wisconsin-Superior campus is an old Che Guevara or Leon Trotsky poster that students left in the dorms?

“Hey, it saved the university some money,” said an alumnus who accidentally left a Che poster in his dorm nearly two decades ago, adding, “plus you know, it’s all symbolic and stuff.”

All you have to do is peel a corner of the Liberal Arts poster back, and you will undoubtedly see a hairy revolutionary staring you in the eyes. 

It is estimated that over two hundred Che and Trotsky posters have been left in UW-Superior dorm rooms since the mid-1960s, and that nearly all of these have been made into the yellow wall hangings we have come to take for granted.

Being a school that is constantly trying to prove its own environmental-friendliness, it makes perfect sense that the University would recycle old dorm posters. Perhaps current student Jeredt Runions put it best.

“Is it a little weird? Yeah. Is it a pathetic excuse for saving money? Maybe. But does it work? Sure…kind of….”

Joining them—as of late—have been dozens of Bob Marley posters.