Locust Walk Banner Pole and Table Reservations

The Office of Student Affairs oversees the use of Locust Walk between 36th and 37th Streets, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.  Only registered student-run organizations are able to reserve space for banner poles and tabling.  Weekend or evening needs are supported by the University Life Space and Events Management team. Use this portal for tabling or event promotion. Locust Walk is not an event space or a place to run programming. Activities as such would be better served through a space request with University Life Space and Events Management.

  • All equipment should be picked up at 200 Houston Hall on the first day of a reservation.

  • All equipment (banner poles & tables) must be returned by end of business on the last day of the reservation.  Banner Poles being returned on Fridays, must be returned by 4:00p.

  • Only students (undergraduate and graduate) may make reservations.

  • Groups may only reserve equipment for the purposes/mission of their own organization. Making a reservation under one group with the intention to be used by a different group is not permitted.

  • Groups are expected to observe the campus sound guidelines which restrict the use of amplified sound during business hours (8:30a-5:00p).  The exception to this is 12-1pm, though sound still must be kept to a reasonable level.  

A few notes about the system:

  • Student groups must be currently registered with the University in the PennClubs database in order to receive an approved request. If group is not active, please follow the link here to register the group with PennClubs.

  • With the exception of Friday, the portal will only allow reservations for the current week.  On Fridays, the schedule for the following week becomes available for reservations.

  • No reservation is official until you receive a confirmation note from the Office of Student Affairs indicating your request is approved.

  • Groups are required to submit a $40 credit card deposit plus fees when reserving Banner Poles and/or a $20 credit card deposit plus fees when reserving a Table. OSA does not handle cash deposits. Deposits will be fully refunded when the equipment is returned at the end of the reservation period. If a group fails to return their equipment on time or the equipment is damaged, the deposit will not be refunded. 

  • Groups which fail to return poles and/or tables, fail to pick up reserved equipment, or violate the Sound Guidelines may be denied future reservations for Locust Walk.  This will be up to the discretion of the OSA Staff and the group will be notified via email.

Locust Walk Banner Policy

Any registered organization may reserve one of 16 locations and sets of poles for banner display along Locust Walk between 36th & 37th Streets.

Reservations may be made via the online reservation portal. Poles and tables may be reserved for a maximum of one week after which the reservation must be made again for the next week.

Reserved poles may be picked up in the OSA, as early as 9:00am on the first day of a reservation (a group must have received an APPROVED reservation email from the OSA in order to have a confirmed reservation).  

  • At the time the poles are picked up, a credit card deposit of $40 for banner poles and/or $20 for a table must be made online via the Ticketleap platform. The payment link will be included in the reservation confirmation email. The deposit will be refunded in full to the person submitting the request for their student group when the borrowed equipment is promptly returned to the OSA at the end of the reservation period.

FAILURE TO RETURN EQUIPMENT BY THE END OF THE RESERVATION PERIOD (FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT 4:00 PM OF THE WEEK FOR WHICH THE RESERVATION WAS MADE), AND/OR FAILURE TO RETURN EQUIPMENT BECAUSE THEY WERE LOST OR STOLEN WILL RESULT IN FORFEITURE OF THE SECURITY DEPOSIT AND AN AUTOMATIC $150 FINE THAT WILL BE BILLED TO THE ORGANIZATION.

Poles MUST be returned even if the deposit is forfeited.

  • Any poles found in sleeves that have not been reserved ahead of time, or for which there is no deposit on record, will be removed. The deposit will not be returned.

  • If a group fails to return its poles ONCE in one year, it forfeits all rights to use the poles for four academic months from the day the poles were due.

  • Poles and the spaces in which to place them are the only things obtainable through the OSA. Neither twine, string, rope, tape, scissors, ladders nor any other materials will be provided. Such items must be provided by the reserving groups.

  • Facilities Services personnel have been authorized to remove any banners hung in unauthorized locations, i.e. any location unmarked on the schematic diagram mentioned previously in this document and/or the absence of the use of University provided poles.

  • Failure to abide by any of the guidelines listed in this policy may result in the loss of a group’s permission to reserve poles and locations on Locust Walk for the balance of the academic year.