
<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div><span>Courtesy of NBC-Chicago at:</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/weird/NATL-University-Accidentally-Gives-Entire-Student-Body-the-Boot-150562885.html"><a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/weird/NATL-University-Accidentally-Gives-Entire-Student-Body-the-Boot-150562885.html">http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/weird/NATL-University-Accidentally-Gives-Entire-Student-Body-the-Boot-150562885.html</a></a></div><div> <br><span>-------------------------------</span></div><h1 class="title" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 36px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.05em; line-height: 40px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">University Accidentally Gives Entire Student Body the Boot</h1><div><span>An email told thousands of students they had been kicked out for poor grades</span><br><span></span><br><span>Thousands of college students got a rude awakening when they were unceremoniously, and erroneously, kicked out of a Michigan university.</span><br><span></span><br><span>The culprit: An email glitch.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Eastern Michigan University meant to give just 100-odd students the boot for poor grades — but the entire student body got the bad news in their inboxes Friday.</span><br><span></span><br><span>"As a result of your Winter 2012 academic performance, you have been dismissed from Eastern Michigan University," the mass email from the academic advising office began.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Once the school realized its error, it scrambled to reassure all the panicked students — and, in some cases, graduates — who had received the email.</span><br><span></span><br><span>"This was a terrible mistake and we know it caused undue concern for many," a spokesman for the school wrote Saturday in an email to students.</span><br><span></span><br><span>He confirmed that an "operational error," not a security breach or hacking, was responsible for the email and that the whole student body received it.</span><br><span></span><br><span>-------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Seeya round town, Moscow.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Tom Hansen</span><br><span>Moscow, Idaho</span><br><span></span><br><span>"If not us, who?</span><br><span>If not now, when?"</span><br><span></span><br><span>- Unknown</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br></div></div><div></div></div><div></div></body></html>