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SGA campaign strategy leads to judicial affairs referral by OTS
Thirty-one thousand e-mails have landed a Towson student on University probation with an academic sanction.
When running for attorney general for the Student Government Association, Ryan Assadi sent out thousands of messages to students, faculty and staff.
His actions violated the student code of conduct and the office of technology services code of spamming, according to Assadi.
"I'm a little upset just because I had no malicious intent," Assadi said. "I apologize if I offended anyone's privacy."
Assadi said he just wanted to let people know about the upcoming elections.
Assistant director of judicial affairs Ryan Kane could not comment on Assadi's case.
Assadi said he spent four hours copying and pasting names from the online directory into an address book titled "Student Body," using his Towson Webmail account.
"Anybody could've done it," Assadi said.
He would not disclose where he got the idea to send out a mass e-mail.
Assadi's original intent was to e-mail 23,000 students, however, the e-mail was accidentally sent twice.
"I think in the grand scheme of things, I probably got 100 votes out of it. If it had worked the way I wanted to work, e-mailing 23,000 people, I was hoping for 1 out of 10,'' Assadi said.
-Nick DiMarco
Commencement pledge revised to focus more on Towson University
With the aid of the acrostic, TIGER, students graduating at the end of this semester, can promise to take responsibility, inspire others, grow personally, embrace opportunities and represent TU proudly.
These are some of the aspirations listed as part of the new Tiger Commencement Pledge.
The Community Principle Subcommittee of Civic Engagement Advisory Board worked this past semester to come up with the new commencement pledge.
The revisions were sparked by a desire to make the pledge more unique and specific to Towson University whereas the original pledge was designed as a national commencement oath, focused on the employment aspect of post-graduation.
Thirty-one thousand e-mails have landed a Towson student on University probation with an academic sanction.
When running for attorney general for the Student Government Association, Ryan Assadi sent out thousands of messages to students, faculty and staff.
His actions violated the student code of conduct and the office of technology services code of spamming, according to Assadi.
"I'm a little upset just because I had no malicious intent," Assadi said. "I apologize if I offended anyone's privacy."
Assadi said he just wanted to let people know about the upcoming elections.
Assistant director of judicial affairs Ryan Kane could not comment on Assadi's case.
Assadi said he spent four hours copying and pasting names from the online directory into an address book titled "Student Body," using his Towson Webmail account.
"Anybody could've done it," Assadi said.
He would not disclose where he got the idea to send out a mass e-mail.
Assadi's original intent was to e-mail 23,000 students, however, the e-mail was accidentally sent twice.
"I think in the grand scheme of things, I probably got 100 votes out of it. If it had worked the way I wanted to work, e-mailing 23,000 people, I was hoping for 1 out of 10,'' Assadi said.
-Nick DiMarco
Commencement pledge revised to focus more on Towson University
With the aid of the acrostic, TIGER, students graduating at the end of this semester, can promise to take responsibility, inspire others, grow personally, embrace opportunities and represent TU proudly.
These are some of the aspirations listed as part of the new Tiger Commencement Pledge.
The Community Principle Subcommittee of Civic Engagement Advisory Board worked this past semester to come up with the new commencement pledge.
The revisions were sparked by a desire to make the pledge more unique and specific to Towson University whereas the original pledge was designed as a national commencement oath, focused on the employment aspect of post-graduation.
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