"No Alumni" sticker (international "No" symbol superimposed on the word "Alumni")

Factual Questions
1

A few weeks ago I saw a bumper sticker as described above. It wasn’t at any particular college, or any college at all, but just a largish shopping complex in Culver City. What would be the point of such a slogan, and who would display it?

I don’t know, it may have something to do with the fact that my generation of UC students paid only three or four hundred dollars a quarter, when current day students pay about twenty times that. Somehow I doubt that’s the case. Most alumni have little or no impact on the current students, and when they do it’s usually a positive one.

So what’s the deal here?

2

I’m guessing this is the answer. They say they do bumper stickers, but the “gear” links don’t work, so maybe they are out of business.

3

Related to this, in McDonald’s this morning I saw someone with a button badge pinned to their bag that had the “No” circle-with-line-through-it over the word “SOFTWARE”.

What the heck was that one about?

4

That’s a logo for Salesforce.com (http://www.salesforce.com). They provide CRM over the internet - i.e. you don’t have to install any software.

5

Sounds like a backlash to the bumper stickers that proclaim college pride. Kind of like the “My kid beat upr your honor student” thing.

6

I always liked the bumper sticker that says “My Dachsund is smarter than your honor student”.