American automakers are on the verge of collapse and the banking system is a shambles, but for a select group of Arizona State University students, President Obama has significantly improved the short-term economic outlook. Some of the university’s seniors are offering their tickets to his May 13 commencement speech on Craigslist for $60 to $100 apiece, and others are auctioning their tickets on eBay, according to CNN.

Seniors can pick up as many as six free tickets to the event, scheduled for the university’s Sun Devil Stadium, which has a game-day capacity of 71,706. But not all seniors plan to attend — in part because of the inconvenience caused by the president’s presence. “You have to get through security, then you have to hear him speak, and then you have to get out,” said a student who told CNN he’s not going. (The university did, however, move the ceremony’s starting time back to 7 p.m., when the stadium will be cooler.)

Seniors have until April 18 to pick up their tickets, after which the university plans to offer remaining seats to other members of the university community. Sharon Keeler, a university spokeswoman, said students who sold their tickets would be denying others the opportunity to attend. The university announced on a graduation Web page that no student could take “any action to sell, trade, or barter the ticket, or to assign or transfer the ticket for any consideration whatsoever.” —Lawrence Biemiller