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June 20, 2005, 11:40 AM ET
Adding Insult to Injury
Failing a course would be plenty embarrassing for most college students. But the experience may have been especially mortifying to a group of students at Kansas University, thanks to an e-mail foul-up. The university’s financial-aid office intended to send separate e-mail messages to 119 students who had failed all of their courses last semester. Instead, officials inadvertently fired off one mass e-mail message to all of the failing students—which let the message’s recipients scroll through an anti-dean’s list of sorts.
Some students identified in the message are hopping mad, and one is arguing that the indiscreet e-mail violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. (The Lawrence Journal-World)
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