Dear Sue O’Brian, Last week I was amused and amazed by the tactics that local companies take trying to capture DU students as customers. Because DU has a no solicitation policy for its dormitories, and because Nelson is a locked building, I was surprised to find a message taped on my door last week. Blackjack pizza parlor on University and Evans was advertising a free pizza; an opportunity any Ramen-eating college student would cherish. All the note said was to bring a DU ID, no other specifications were given. When my suitemates and I arrived to gleefully pick our free pizzas, clipboards were forced in our hands, and we were told to fill them out. We were never told what the paperwork was, only that we would recieve a free pizza afterwards. The paperwork just asked for basic information on the front. However, upon turning the papers over, we discovered a dragon in disguise. The papers were not just one, but two applications for credit cards! Unknowingly that afternoon, dozens of DU students were releasing their social security information to a pizza parlor! These students did not realize that in a few weeks, the approved many of them would be sent credit cards that they would have to cancel, or be faced with a potential time-bomb on their credit record. Even worse, their social security number was written down and in the open for all to see, and would be sent through postal service for all to steal their identities. Living in this modern world where identity theft and credit card debt are two of the worst horrors plaguing students, I find it amazing that a pizza parlor and Citigroup would go to these lengths. They obviously have little concern for the students who they are trying to attract as new customers. Why should students patronize either company after the company seduced them with pizza, and did not mention to students what a liability their were filling out. My biggest question, though, is how someone slipped into each building, even where a key is required for each floor? How did someone evade the no-solicitation policy so craftily, and for these means? And lastly, whether companies such as this will continue to be allowed to exploit DU students?