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Article: Colleges regulating credit card solicitation on campus: Legislature 2002 Credit cards
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 20, 2002
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
Representatives from a New Jersey credit card company came to
Marshall University recently with freebie T-shirts adorned with the
school logo and plans to set up a booth in the main student lounge.
But when they arrived at the Huntington campus for their three-
day stay, what they found were school regulations that forced them
into an out-of-the-way room on the second floor of the student
center.
The only connection the company had to the main lounge, where
students hang out, was a sign notifying students of their presence.
Frustrated, the company left midway through the second day of the
trip.
"The companies aren't allowed to just grab students and say, 'Hey,
we've got a ...