THE TRADITIONAL Ateneo blue has been taking a backseat lately.

For the past few weeks, the campus has shifted from being a summer playground to a canvas of entirely different colors— touches of yellow, hints of green, dabs of red. Every hue wishes to command attention and hopes to be powerful enough to persuade; a striking array of posters, flyers, baller bands and stickers reflect them all.

It isn’t a circus; it’s just election season.

Enter our generation’s new breed of Picassos, who specialize not in the art of the brush but in the art of persuasion— Noynoy Aquino’s Yo!Noy, Gilbert Teodoro’s Green Team Movement and Dick Gordon’s Ateneans for Gordon. With a few more days to go until May 10, here they are momentarily trading the Ateneo blue with threads that aren’t usually in our palette–because just this once, it’s about who you wear.