Discuss “Vendor wanders campus lacking license”

The English department had an unexpected visitor last Monday morning. At 10:30 a.m., a man entered the English office, Baker Hall 260, carrying a box of framed paintings. He carried the box throughout the office, offering to sell staff members the painting of their choice.

The man was a picture salesman lacking a license, and selling Van Gogh prints with new frames.

“He greeted us with ‘hey ladies,’ and proceeded to walk into our office and open his box of photos,” said Kelly Delaney, a master’s student and graduate coordinator for the English department.

The actor was wearing denim jeans, a T-shirt, and a baseball cap, Delaney said.

“He looked just like a Carnegie Mellon student,” she said.

While Delaney went to class, undergraduate...