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House bans campus credit card marketing
Credit card marketing activities on the campuses of Ohio’s public and private universities would be prohibited under legislative approved Wednesday, June 17, by the Ohio House.
The vote on House Bill 12 was 59-25. It now goes to the Senate.
Students get taken advantage of, said Rep. Matt Lundy, D-Elyria, the bill’s sponsor.
“The playing field is grossly uneven,” said Lundy.
Rep. Bill Coley, a Republican from Liberty Township in Butler County, disagreed that the prohibition is needed.
“We do not need to infringe more on freedom,” said Coley.
Wright State University has not permitted credit card vendors on campus for several years, said spokeswoman Stephanie Ely. The ban is to protect students, Ely said.
At the University of Dayton, the only credit cards that can be marketed on campus are those with UD’s name on them, said spokeswoman Teri Rizvi.
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By Bob
June 18, 2009 9:58 AM | Link to this
These smoking bans will probably go down in history as one of the greatest marketing scams ever. They want to “hurry up and pass the bans” before people find out who is paying the lobbyists pushing for them. Here’s the beginning of the ban movement in the USA. www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?ia=143&id=14912 Here are the instructions from Johnson and Johnsons’ (makers of cessation products) RWJ Foundation for their tax exempt political action committees. www.no-smoke.org/pdf/CIA_Fundamentals.pdfBy jimmie
June 18, 2009 12:34 AM | Link to this
The nanny state is alive and well. These college kids can go off to college, fight wars, make babies, get stinkin drunk - but they can’t say “no” to a credit card company? They want to be treated as adults, but they act like little children.By WTF
June 18, 2009 12:20 AM | Link to this
It’s a shame legislature has to be policing things such as this. What a far better society we would have if these companies had some ethics and integrity. I’m sure there’s plenty of debate to be had, but I don’t believe that just because a kid blows out 18 candles, ‘poof’ they are automatically an ‘adult’. It takes years and experience for that. Too bad for many of these ‘adults’ that the ‘experience’ comes years too soon.By Larry Pagina
June 17, 2009 11:39 PM | Link to this
Smoking ban was voted into effect in 2006, last gambling issue was shot down in the 2008 election, no touch law for strip clubs was in May 2007. Painfultruth, what do all these issues have in common? They were all voted on during your buddy Bush’s tenure. You need to do a better job when you try to work a jab against Obama into every DDN story. Oh Well, I guess our economy wouldn’t be in the shape it was if the banks exercised some of this financial responsibility you’re suggesting. Offer a college kid who makes no money a credit card with a high limit. No way of paying it back, the account obviously falls into default. Sounds like a financially sound investment doesn’t?By Josh
June 17, 2009 9:50 PM | Link to this
Anyone on here that doesn’t agree with this is retarded. First off, I don’t want any merchants soliciting students on any University where my tax dollars being applied. Credit card companies are scum and have cheated many responsible and irresponsible people alike. Secondly, credit card companies do prey on college students, especially colleges where there is a high volume of students living on campus. First off, these students are usually broke. College students are just now blossoming into responsible adulthood and sometimes take the easy way out and get the card rather than live on a budget. Whether it’s stupid or not is out of the question. Credit card companies rely on this. To make it worse, they then entice the student with a free shirt, food coupons, memoribilia, etc…Granted it is the student’s responsibility to not go overboard, but at the same time, it is extremely enticing to sign up for the card. The hope is for these students to max out the cards with an insane percentage knowing their parents will probably help them out. This is predatory lending at its best.By HHRes
June 17, 2009 9:22 PM | Link to this
You guys need to get off your high horses. Like you never have made a mistake before. This is not government controlling us, this is government taking care of predators. These credit companies are predators plain and simple when they target the college kids. I work at a college and believe me, many of these kids are immature in their thinking. They’ll eventually mature by their senior year, but many times its the Freshmen who get sucked in by these cards. Good for Ohio for passing this.By oh well
June 17, 2009 8:41 PM | Link to this
This wouldn’t really be an issue if parents taught their children financial responsibility in the first place, would it? Good thing they’ve got the government backing them up…By painfultruth
June 17, 2009 5:52 PM | Link to this
Nicole, YOU are the idiot. First, if you have no financial restraint, that’s YOUR fault, not the credit card company. Second, freedom after freedom are slowly being taken away in our “Obama Socialist Society”. You completely missed the point. Gee, what a surprise!By Nicole
June 17, 2009 5:17 PM | Link to this
How does smoking in public places and stripping relate to credit card companies on college campuses? The credit card companies prey on college students by offering them free food and other free items if they sign up for the card. Often the student is approved and given a ridiculously high credit limit. I did it once and was sent two cards, both with a $1000 limit and when I tried to cancel just one of them they offered to combine the cards so that I had one card with a $2000 limit, even though I was barely making $8000 a year. Just seems irresponsible on the credit card companies’ part. Oh, and Painfultruth, you are kind of an idiot sometimes.By painfultruth
June 17, 2009 5:09 PM | Link to this
Sieg Heil! Zere hiss NO SMOKINK in OHIO. Zere can be NO STRIP KLUBBS in OHIO. Zere can be NO GAMBLINK in OHIO. Zere can be NO KREDIT KARDS ON KAMPUS in OHIO. Now, go enjoy YOUR FREEDOMS. Hans, get me zee red hot poker, SCHNELL! Vee haff ways of making you behave!