A rogue student caused widespread panic in a second year marketing paper after sending an email on Blackboard to every student in the paper asking if they could join a group for an assignment that hadn’t even been set yet.
The first email, sent on September 8, set off waves of panic amongst MART203 students, and caused a chain reaction of emails from students seeking to also join or form groups for the assignment, despite the fact that the assignment was not due to be posted to Blackboard until September 15.
As of noon on September 15, sources indicated that the entire class had received no fewer than eleven separate emails from students seeking to join groups, many of which included smiley faces designed to lure prospective group partners into accepting the sender into their probably non-existent groups.
How the students were supposed to form groups for an assignment when crucial details like the required size of the group were not yet known is unclear, but students Critic spoke to who were doing real BCom degrees like Economics or Finance speculated that the Marketing students were just really stupid.
OUSA President Logan Edgar, a Marketing major and one of the department’s recent success stories, told Critic that “well, in a nutshell, a wise man once told me it’s better to be outspoken and misunderstood than to stay silent and lose a leg in a yachting accident.”
Tourism students were reportedly excited by the development, with some speculating that the Marketing students were now probably considered the dumbest amongst the various BCom majors, knocking Tourism off a perch it has occupied ever since it was invented as an academic discipline as part of an elaborate joke.
Marketing is the new Tourism
