Students should get to enter speech first

I attended Nye's speech Tuesday night, and while I thought his program was wonderful, the venue left something to be desired - namely, the choice to open the Phillips Center to the general public rather than to students only. The massive crowd of parents and young children who showed up prevented many students from seeing Nye in person and required throngs of students to watch the speech outside on a projector.

If student money is spent to bring Nye to campus, shouldn't students be the first ones admitted to see him? I don't mind if the general public shows up to see him, but they should be the ones waiting outside, not the students whose money funded the event.