Students planned Barack Obama hoax
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS - THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | 4/1/08 3:00 PM EST
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Yesterday morning both University officials and the Obama campaign confirmed that the event was just a hoax.
Photo: AP
April Fools' Day came early, thanks to a campus-wide prank planned by three students.
But contrary to the information contained in eggs and flyers Wharton freshmen Nick Greif and Marko Horvat and College freshman Logan Steinhardt scattered around campus, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama will not speak at Irvine Auditorium tonight.
Greif said the three students came up with the idea for the prank while talking about New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's under-publicized event in Houston Hall last week.
"Logan mentioned that Hillary was on campus, and we said we hadn't heard about it," Greif said. "Then Marko said it would be an awesome April Fools' joke" to pretend Obama was visiting campus as well.
The three students placed plastic eggs, each containing two professionally printed tickets to the supposed speech, on Locust Walk and in the Quadrangle late Sunday night.
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Yesterday morning both University officials and the Obama campaign confirmed that the event was just a hoax.
Photo: AP
April Fools' Day came early, thanks to a campus-wide prank planned by three students.
But contrary to the information contained in eggs and flyers Wharton freshmen Nick Greif and Marko Horvat and College freshman Logan Steinhardt scattered around campus, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama will not speak at Irvine Auditorium tonight.
Greif said the three students came up with the idea for the prank while talking about New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's under-publicized event in Houston Hall last week.
"Logan mentioned that Hillary was on campus, and we said we hadn't heard about it," Greif said. "Then Marko said it would be an awesome April Fools' joke" to pretend Obama was visiting campus as well.
The three students placed plastic eggs, each containing two professionally printed tickets to the supposed speech, on Locust Walk and in the Quadrangle late Sunday night.
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