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Presidential Debates  Posted: 05/31/2012 5:52 pm  On October 3,
2012, the University of Denver will host its first presidential
debate and early on in the planning, Chancellor Robert Coombe
rallied around the idea that students would have precedence for
the tickets to this momentous event being held at their school.
However, Coombe then realized that it would not be DU who would
be selling the tickets, nor would it be the Magness Arena or the
Ritchie Center, but the Commission of the Presidential Debates,
who usually gives the tickets to the media and the campaigns to
sell to whomever they please. This means that, unfortunately, we
now have only 150 of 200 tickets to be given out by a lottery
system to a student body of over 6,000 undergraduates alone.  I
realize that many schools before ours have hosted presidential
debates and that though ours is the first to be held in
Colorado, it does not change the fact that thousands have sat
back and watched