After this puzzle was released (and about once an hour until teams solved the puzzle), teams received a spam message.
In this spam, there is a 5-digit number (17548) in the subject line and various dollar amounts in the text. The dollar amounts correspond to the amounts raised by the winners of the APO Big Screw and Ugliest Manifestation on Campus charity fundraisers in the past few years. (APO, hence all the words that start with APO.) When you take the specified letters out of the people's names, you get the message HAIKU WITH THE SPAM NUMBER SECOND WORD:
HA $932.63 Hale V. D. Bradt 1,2 2001 Big Screw IK $493.76 Ken J. Lin 6,1 1993 UMOC UW $335.05 Matthew H. Braun 12, 7 1998 Big Screw IT $291.40 Eliot S. Levitt 3, 11 1993 Big Screw HT $376.55 Stephanie A. Sparvero 5,2 1994 UMOC HE $249.40 Joseph A. Powers 6,4 1991 UMOC SP $416.35 Pascal R. Chesnais 3,1 1991 Big Screw AM $233.82 C. Michael Mohr 6,2 1998 Big Screw NU $308.52 Justin O. Cave 6,2 1995 UMOC MB $296.35 Shirley M. McBay 8/9,11 1985 Big Screw ER $242.84 Wesley L. Harris 2,10 1995 Big Screw SE $1,997.71 Steven B. Leeb 1,3 2002 Big Screw CO $179.12 Robert D. Logcher 11, 2 1994 Big Screw ND $295.88 Alice A. Enevoldsen 8, 13 1999 UMOC WO $87.04 Neal H. Dorow 10,7 1997 Big Screw RD $979.97 Neal Dorow 8,6 2000 Big Screw
The names can all be found in the relevant issues of the Tech (or on APO's web site). And yes, Neal (H.) Dorow is listed with his middle initial in 1997 and without in 2000, in both places.
The haiku with the number 17548 in the spam haiku archive is:
17548.
Unmitigated
gall; to serve greasy SPAM chunks
at fancy dress ball.--Milford Pigboy
The second word, and therefore the answer, is GALL.