When the Obama administration announced last week President Barack Obama would be speaking on campus, many students waited to hear from their professors about the status of their Thursday classes. In the meantime, they flocked to Obama?s campaign website to acquire a ticket for the event. To acquire a ticket, prospective speech-goers had to enter their email and phone number, giving the Obama campaign thousands more emails to spam on a daily basis. The university should not have let this happen, not while at the same time allowing the speech to take place in the heart of campus.
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