Chalking

Chalking

Chalking

Chalking on the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus will be permitted in a designated place, time, and manner.  Only UCCS departments and registered student organizations will be allowed permits. Chalking is prohibited in the following areas:

  • All parking lots 
  • All streets and roads, including but not limited to any area designed primarily for vehicular traffic 
  • All asphalt surfaces, brick surfaces, pavers, and stucco surfaces 
  • All vertical surfaces, including building vertical surfaces 
  • All doors 
  • All windows 
  • All stairs and stairwells, including exterior stairs 
  • All classrooms 
  • All fences
  • University buses and motor vehicles
  • Walls, pillars, benches, bulletin boards, and trash cans 
  • All signs (it is a criminal offense for anyone to remove, change, cover, or damage University regulatory or way-finding signs) 
  • Within 20 feet of building entrances (exceptions are the housing villages where chalking may not be done within 10 feet of building entrances) 
  • On the Mountain Lion Statue, its base, or any other artwork on campus (note, defacement of these items may result in criminal charges) 
  • In the area designated as the Lower Plaza
 

Procedures

 

Approvals

To receive approval all student organizations must request approval for chalking from the Office of Student Life and Leadership at the time that they submit an event application on Mountain Lion Connect. All University departments must request approval for chalking by emailing the Director of the University Center. 

Permits

Information required on each permit includes but is not limited to:

  • Requested location
  • Message to be displayed
  • A diagram of the proposed chalking 
  • Requested start and end date
    • Chalking may be done no more than 7 days in advance
    • Chalking must be cleaned up within 24 hours of event 

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Only water soluble chalk may be used. Water soluble chalk is available for student organizations in the Office of Student Life and Leadership. Departments must provide their own water soluble chalk.