You may have noticed that SIUE has a few electronic message boards around campus. These boards are a good way to get the word out about student organization sponsored events. What you probably didn’t know is that it is easy to get a message posted to these boards.
All you have to do is:
1. Read and follow the policies (http://www.siue.edu/news/signsPolicies.shtml)
2. Fill out the Electronic Signs Message Submission Form (http://www.siue.edu/news/signsElectronic.shtml) (10 days before the Message is to appear)
A few years ago CAOS tried to get a message posted for the RedHat Road Tour (http://web.archive.org/web/20030407131225/www.redhat.com/roadtour/journal/archives/110602.html) and it was rejected because RedHat (http://www.redhat.com/) is a commercial organization, but if CAOS was running a LAN tournament, or featuring a speaker who is not being paid to speak by a commercial organization then I am pretty sure it would be approved.
The only other thing to watch out for is that your posted event must appeal to a wide audience. For example, a talk on technology in Pop. culture (http://www.cs.siue.edu/news/story.aspx?StoryID=200602270) would probably be appropriate because many students from different departments might be interested. However, a technical demonstration of AJAX technologies (http://caos.siue.edu/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1226&forum=16) would probably only appeal to CS, CMIS, and ECE students and so would not be permitted.