Article: Actor Kal Penn visits IU, stumps for Obama during rally on campus

Sarah Brubeck
University Wire
03-31-2008
(Indiana Daily Student) (UWIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Actor Kal Penn journeyed to Bloomington Saturday evening - not to eat sliders from White Castle - but to stump for Sen. Barack Obama.

Speaking to about 450 students, Penn rallied support for the Illinois senator's presidential campaign.

"Wow, this is huge," Penn said to the packed auditorium in Ballantine Hall. "I think you guys just set the national record of students at a circuit event. Wow, you guys have nothing better to do on a Saturday night."

Penn's speech kicked off with a personal story about a friend of his who was living in Texas and was trying to pay for college. One day Penn's friend ...

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