Harker email causes confusion among graduating students
Published: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 05:05
Senior Josh Lucas received an email from President Patrick Harker addressed to “Alexander” congratulating him on graduation and asking him to donate to his soon-to-be alma mater.
He was not the only senior who received the email addressed to a name other than his own.
“At least I had the right gender,” Lucas said. “My one roommate who is Alexander got Alexandra.”
He said he thinks he will still donate $100 because he wants to give back to the university, but he thought the error was funny.
“The fact that they could botch something that bad while they were asking people for money,” Lucas said. “The fact that it’s become an Internet joke is even better.”
Senior Tiara Goode said she received an email addressed to “Lucy” and will not donate to the senior gift after receiving the email. She said if she were to make a donation it would be to her own college.
“I thought it was unprofessional,” Goode said. “It was bad enough when an email like that is not personalized, but they completely messed it up.”
Beth Brand, associate vice president for university development, said the mishap happened in her department because they mixed up data fields.
Brand’s department was notified of the error within seven minutes after the emails were sent out. Approximately an hour and a half after the email was sent, officials sent a follow-up apology email. Brand said they wanted to find where the error had occurred and gather information before they sent the second email.
“Of course it is embarrassing for us,” she said. “I hope that they could see through the error and embrace the spirit of the email.”
From the apology email, Brand said about five students clicked the link to the donation website. Her office does not have real-time data to know if those students made a donation or not. She said officials plan on sending out additional apologies through Facebook and Twitter.
Senior Christopher McElwee, co-chair of the senior class gift council, said he hopes the email will not affect donations because they have had a strong campaign up until this point.
“I hope that in working with the apology email and with the support so far that this would not cause any disregard,” McElwee said.
He said if he had received the email he wouldn’t be discouraged from donating. He said he would overlook the glitch because he understands the importance of giving back to the university.
“Basically it was just human error with the data, for which we’re terribly sorry about,” McElwee said.
Senior Anthony Maiello, who had not thought about donating to the university, said he received the email addressed to “Morgan.” He said the email did not help to convince him to donate.
“If they want me to think we’re more than just a number here at UD, this definitely isn’t helping their case,” Maiello said.
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PHRC Case No.200800802 & EEOC Case No.17F200960329. These 2 Formal"good faith"Complaints were filed against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pennsylvania. 70+counts of harassment & discrimination. The sociologist & ex-U.S.Army veteran who filed the formal complaints with the PA Governor's office of the Human Relations Commission was the 3rd prof to be harassed in 2 yrs & 4th person if you count the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L who was discriminated against & chased off at HACC in Lancaster Pa. Academic Mobbing/work place harassment/hostile enviroment. The moment after the formal complaint reached HACC, strangely a police report showed up at the University of Delaware in Newark. For 10 month the whistleblower would be investigated. text messages & phone calls would come in from 5-6phone, agitating,baiting,provoking & luring him in to an illusion of a crime thru trickery. 10 months later & 3 wks before the Pa Gov ordered HACC to answer the 70+counts the whistleblower is arrested & thrown in jail at 15x the normal amount of bail. He accused of wanting to blow up the University of Delaware & kill more kids then Virginia tech by a U.D.security guard. The pacifest professor, who never owned a gun in his life. A reasonable man & quiet intellectual is said to be:DANGEROUS, unstable, on drugs, a racist, a loose cannon, aggressive, a TIME-BOMB & has WEAPONS. Busting into the pacifest professor house thru the window, the U.D.security takes: college books, piles ex-girlfriends gifts of POLO shirts up in the middle of the bed & his 3 U.S.army medals laying on the dresser from his 3 honorable discharges vanish. Quickly an U.D.security guard calls OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE up at the Lancaster Paper. OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE put the whistleblower on the internet 12x & internet black balled & black listed the ex-solder/prof. PA STATE TROOPER RICHARD T. DRUM calls the prof up 3x & states"I have never seen an investigation like this. This certainly isn't state police protocol nor none I have ever seen.We call people.We talk to people.We communicate with people & we just don't come & bust into their houses.90%of the stuff they took had nothing to do with any charges. I don't get this.That U.D.security guard called OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE. That U.D.security guard said that stuff.They were walking across the steet to neighbor who they knew were home. They talked to them like they knew them. It was a afternoon on a summer weekday. This is strange. I don't know?" Judge Jerome O.Herlihy stated to the whistleblower late Dec of 2010 in court, "What are University of Delaware security guards headed to Lancaster pa for anyway? Did your attorney even communicate with you at all? Where did you get this guy? He isn't helping you. He is no good. Get rid of him. what kind of deal did these 2 give you? You are not DANGEROUS. Jail is for DANGEROUS people & you are certainly not one of them. Im not going to put you in jail.There is nothing wrong with you.You are depressed. What do they have you on? Yes I will see your evidence. Any that you have. What is he whispering? tell me. Don't listen to him. this is weird. What are U.D.security guards headed to lancaster PA for anyway. I don't get this.You are from York & not from Lancaster? This doesn't make any sense. Something not right here." The U.D.police reports WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES. 3 wks later when HACC answered the PA Gov's order to answer the 70+counts of harassment & discrimination PHRC case No.200800802 & EEOC No.17F200960329, THEY WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES too. Thank you for allowing me to express my freedom of speech thru the FREEPRESS. Thank God we still have those rights...
PHRC Case No.200800802 & EEOC Case No.17F200960329. These 2 Formal"good faith"Complaints were filed against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pennsylvania. 70+counts of harassment & discrimination. The sociologist & ex-U.S.Army veteran who filed the formal complaints with the PA Governor's office of the Human Relations Commission was the 3rd prof to be harassed in 2 yrs & 4th person if you count the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L who was discriminated against & chased off at HACC in Lancaster Pa. Academic Mobbing/work place harassment/hostile enviroment. The moment after the formal complaint reached HACC, strangely a police report showed up at the University of Delaware in Newark. For 10 month the whistleblower would be investigated. text messages & phone calls would come in from 5-6phone, agitating,baiting,provoking & luring him in to an illusion of a crime thru trickery. 10 months later & 3 wks before the Pa Gov ordered HACC to answer the 70+counts the whistleblower is arrested & thrown in jail at 15x the normal amount of bail. He accused of wanting to blow up the University of Delaware & kill more kids then Virginia tech by a U.D.security guard. The pacifest professor, who never owned a gun in his life. A reasonable man & quiet intellectual is said to be:DANGEROUS, unstable, on drugs, a racist, a loose cannon, aggressive, a TIME-BOMB & has WEAPONS. Busting into the pacifest professor house thru the window, the U.D.security takes: college books, piles ex-girlfriends gifts of POLO shirts up in the middle of the bed & his 3 U.S.army medals laying on the dresser from his 3 honorable discharges vanish. Quickly an U.D.security guard calls OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE up at the Lancaster Paper. OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE put the whistleblower on the internet 12x & internet black balled & black listed the ex-solder/prof. PA STATE TROOPER RICHARD T. DRUM calls the prof up 3x & states"I have never seen an investigation like this. This certainly isn't state police protocol nor none I have ever seen.We call people.We talk to people.We communicate with people & we just don't come & bust into their houses.90%of the stuff they took had nothing to do with any charges. I don't get this.That U.D.security guard called OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE. That U.D.security guard said that stuff.They were walking across the steet to neighbor who they knew were home. They talked to them like they knew them. It was a afternoon on a summer weekday. This is strange. I don't know?" Judge Jerome O.Herlihy stated to the whistleblower late Dec of 2010 in court, "What are University of Delaware security guards headed to Lancaster pa for anyway? Did your attorney even communicate with you at all? Where did you get this guy? He isn't helping you. He is no good. Get rid of him. what kind of deal did these 2 give you? You are not DANGEROUS. Jail is for DANGEROUS people & you are certainly not one of them. Im not going to put you in jail.There is nothing wrong with you.You are depressed. What do they have you on? Yes I will see your evidence. Any that you have. What is he whispering? tell me. Don't listen to him. this is weird. What are U.D.security guards headed to lancaster PA for anyway. I don't get this.You are from York & not from Lancaster? This doesn't make any sense. Something not right here." The U.D.police reports WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES. 3 wks later when HACC answered the PA Gov's order to answer the 70+counts of harassment & discrimination PHRC case No.200800802 & EEOC No.17F200960329, THEY WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES too. Thank you for allowing me to express my freedom of speech thru the FREEPRESS. Thank God we still have those rights...
PHRC Case No.200800802 & EEOC Case No.17F200960329. These 2 Formal"good faith"Complaints were filed against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pennsylvania. 70+counts of harassment & discrimination. The sociologist & ex-U.S.Army veteran who filed the formal complaints with the PA Governor's office of the Human Relations Commission was the 3rd prof to be harassed in 2 yrs & 4th person if you count the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L who was discriminated against & chased off at HACC in Lancaster Pa. Academic Mobbing/work place harassment/hostile enviroment. The moment after the formal complaint reached HACC, strangely a police report showed up at the University of Delaware in Newark. For 10 month the whistleblower would be investigated. text messages & phone calls would come in from 5-6phone, agitating,baiting,provoking & luring him in to an illusion of a crime thru trickery. 10 months later & 3 wks before the Pa Gov ordered HACC to answer the 70+counts the whistleblower is arrested & thrown in jail at 15x the normal amount of bail. He accused of wanting to blow up the University of Delaware & kill more kids then Virginia tech by a U.D.security guard. The pacifest professor, who never owned a gun in his life. A reasonable man & quiet intellectual is said to be:DANGEROUS, unstable, on drugs, a racist, a loose cannon, aggressive, a TIME-BOMB & has WEAPONS. Busting into the pacifest professor house thru the window, the U.D.security takes: college books, piles ex-girlfriends gifts of POLO shirts up in the middle of the bed & his 3 U.S.army medals laying on the dresser from his 3 honorable discharges vanish. Quickly an U.D.security guard calls OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE up at the Lancaster Paper. OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE put the whistleblower on the internet 12x & internet black balled & black listed the ex-solder/prof. PA STATE TROOPER RICHARD T. DRUM calls the prof up 3x & states"I have never seen an investigation like this. This certainly isn't state police protocol nor none I have ever seen.We call people.We talk to people.We communicate with people & we just don't come & bust into their houses.90%of the stuff they took had nothing to do with any charges. I don't get this.That U.D.security guard called OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE. That U.D.security guard said that stuff.They were walking across the steet to neighbor who they knew were home. They talked to them like they knew them. It was a afternoon on a summer weekday. This is strange. I don't know?" Judge Jerome O.Herlihy stated to the whistleblower late Dec of 2010 in court, "What are University of Delaware security guards headed to Lancaster pa for anyway? Did your attorney even communicate with you at all? Where did you get this guy? He isn't helping you. He is no good. Get rid of him. what kind of deal did these 2 give you? You are not DANGEROUS. Jail is for DANGEROUS people & you are certainly not one of them. Im not going to put you in jail.There is nothing wrong with you.You are depressed. What do they have you on? Yes I will see your evidence. Any that you have. What is he whispering? tell me. Don't listen to him. this is weird. What are U.D.security guards headed to lancaster PA for anyway. I don't get this.You are from York & not from Lancaster? This doesn't make any sense. Something not right here." The U.D.police reports WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES. 3 wks later when HACC answered the PA Gov's order to answer the 70+counts of harassment & discrimination PHRC case No.200800802 & EEOC No.17F200960329, THEY WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES too. Thank you for allowing me to express my freedom of speech thru the FREEPRESS. Thank God we still have those rights...
PHRC Case No.200800802 & EEOC Case No.17F200960329. These 2 Formal"good faith"Complaints were filed against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pennsylvania. 70+counts of harassment & discrimination. The sociologist & ex-U.S.Army veteran who filed the formal complaints with the PA Governor's office of the Human Relations Commission was the 3rd prof to be harassed in 2 yrs & 4th person if you count the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L who was discriminated against & chased off at HACC in Lancaster Pa. Academic Mobbing/work place harassment/hostile enviroment. The moment after the formal complaint reached HACC, strangely a police report showed up at the University of Delaware in Newark. For 10 month the whistleblower would be investigated. text messages & phone calls would come in from 5-6phone, agitating,baiting,provoking & luring him in to an illusion of a crime thru trickery. 10 months later & 3 wks before the Pa Gov ordered HACC to answer the 70+counts the whistleblower is arrested & thrown in jail at 15x the normal amount of bail. He accused of wanting to blow up the University of Delaware & kill more kids then Virginia tech by a U.D.security guard. The pacifest professor, who never owned a gun in his life. A reasonable man & quiet intellectual is said to be:DANGEROUS, unstable, on drugs, a racist, a loose cannon, aggressive, a TIME-BOMB & has WEAPONS. Busting into the pacifest professor house thru the window, the U.D.security takes: college books, piles ex-girlfriends gifts of POLO shirts up in the middle of the bed & his 3 U.S.army medals laying on the dresser from his 3 honorable discharges vanish. Quickly an U.D.security guard calls OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE up at the Lancaster Paper. OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE put the whistleblower on the internet 12x & internet black balled & black listed the ex-solder/prof. PA STATE TROOPER RICHARD T. DRUM calls the prof up 3x & states"I have never seen an investigation like this. This certainly isn't state police protocol nor none I have ever seen.We call people.We talk to people.We communicate with people & we just don't come & bust into their houses.90%of the stuff they took had nothing to do with any charges. I don't get this.That U.D.security guard called OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE. That U.D.security guard said that stuff.They were walking across the steet to neighbor who they knew were home. They talked to them like they knew them. It was a afternoon on a summer weekday. This is strange. I don't know?" Judge Jerome O.Herlihy stated to the whistleblower late Dec of 2010 in court, "What are University of Delaware security guards headed to Lancaster pa for anyway? Did your attorney even communicate with you at all? Where did you get this guy? He isn't helping you. He is no good. Get rid of him. what kind of deal did these 2 give you? You are not DANGEROUS. Jail is for DANGEROUS people & you are certainly not one of them. Im not going to put you in jail.There is nothing wrong with you.You are depressed. What do they have you on? Yes I will see your evidence. Any that you have. What is he whispering? tell me. Don't listen to him. this is weird. What are U.D.security guards headed to lancaster PA for anyway. I don't get this.You are from York & not from Lancaster? This doesn't make any sense. Something not right here." The U.D.police reports WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES. 3 wks later when HACC answered the PA Gov's order to answer the 70+counts of harassment & discrimination PHRC case No.200800802 & EEOC No.17F200960329, THEY WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES too. Thank you for allowing me to express my freedom of speech thru the FREEPRESS. Thank God we still have those rights...
PHRC Case No.200800802 & EEOC Case No.17F200960329. These 2 Formal"good faith"Complaints were filed against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pennsylvania. 70+counts of harassment & discrimination. The sociologist & ex-U.S.Army veteran who filed the formal complaints with the PA Governor's office of the Human Relations Commission was the 3rd prof to be harassed in 2 yrs & 4th person if you count the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L who was discriminated against & chased off at HACC in Lancaster Pa. Academic Mobbing/work place harassment/hostile enviroment. The moment after the formal complaint reached HACC, strangely a police report showed up at the University of Delaware in Newark. For 10 month the whistleblower would be investigated. text messages & phone calls would come in from 5-6phone, agitating,baiting,provoking & luring him in to an illusion of a crime thru trickery. 10 months later & 3 wks before the Pa Gov ordered HACC to answer the 70+counts the whistleblower is arrested & thrown in jail at 15x the normal amount of bail. He accused of wanting to blow up the University of Delaware & kill more kids then Virginia tech by a U.D.security guard. The pacifest professor, who never owned a gun in his life. A reasonable man & quiet intellectual is said to be:DANGEROUS, unstable, on drugs, a racist, a loose cannon, aggressive, a TIME-BOMB & has WEAPONS. Busting into the pacifest professor house thru the window, the U.D.security takes: college books, piles ex-girlfriends gifts of POLO shirts up in the middle of the bed & his 3 U.S.army medals laying on the dresser from his 3 honorable discharges vanish. Quickly an U.D.security guard calls OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE up at the Lancaster Paper. OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE put the whistleblower on the internet 12x & internet black balled & black listed the ex-solder/prof. PA STATE TROOPER RICHARD T. DRUM calls the prof up 3x & states"I have never seen an investigation like this. This certainly isn't state police protocol nor none I have ever seen.We call people.We talk to people.We communicate with people & we just don't come & bust into their houses.90%of the stuff they took had nothing to do with any charges. I don't get this.That U.D.security guard called OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE. That U.D.security guard said that stuff.They were walking across the steet to neighbor who they knew were home. They talked to them like they knew them. It was a afternoon on a summer weekday. This is strange. I don't know?" Judge Jerome O.Herlihy stated to the whistleblower late Dec of 2010 in court, "What are University of Delaware security guards headed to Lancaster pa for anyway? Did your attorney even communicate with you at all? Where did you get this guy? He isn't helping you. He is no good. Get rid of him. what kind of deal did these 2 give you? You are not DANGEROUS. Jail is for DANGEROUS people & you are certainly not one of them. Im not going to put you in jail.There is nothing wrong with you.You are depressed. What do they have you on? Yes I will see your evidence. Any that you have. What is he whispering? tell me. Don't listen to him. this is weird. What are U.D.security guards headed to lancaster PA for anyway. I don't get this.You are from York & not from Lancaster? This doesn't make any sense. Something not right here." The U.D.police reports WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES. 3 wks later when HACC answered the PA Gov's order to answer the 70+counts of harassment & discrimination PHRC case No.200800802 & EEOC No.17F200960329, THEY WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES too. Thank you for allowing me to express my freedom of speech thru the FREEPRESS. Thank God we still have those rights...
PHRC Case No.200800802 & EEOC Case No.17F200960329. These 2 Formal"good faith"Complaints were filed against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pennsylvania. 70+counts of harassment & discrimination. The sociologist & ex-U.S.Army veteran who filed the formal complaints with the PA Governor's office of the Human Relations Commission was the 3rd prof to be harassed in 2 yrs & 4th person if you count the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L who was discriminated against & chased off at HACC in Lancaster Pa. Academic Mobbing/work place harassment/hostile enviroment. The moment after the formal complaint reached HACC, strangely a police report showed up at the University of Delaware in Newark. For 10 month the whistleblower would be investigated. text messages & phone calls would come in from 5-6phone, agitating,baiting,provoking & luring him in to an illusion of a crime thru trickery. 10 months later & 3 wks before the Pa Gov ordered HACC to answer the 70+counts the whistleblower is arrested & thrown in jail at 15x the normal amount of bail. He accused of wanting to blow up the University of Delaware & kill more kids then Virginia tech by a U.D.security guard. The pacifest professor, who never owned a gun in his life. A reasonable man & quiet intellectual is said to be:DANGEROUS, unstable, on drugs, a racist, a loose cannon, aggressive, a TIME-BOMB & has WEAPONS. Busting into the pacifest professor house thru the window, the U.D.security takes: college books, piles ex-girlfriends gifts of POLO shirts up in the middle of the bed & his 3 U.S.army medals laying on the dresser from his 3 honorable discharges vanish. Quickly an U.D.security guard calls OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE up at the Lancaster Paper. OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE put the whistleblower on the internet 12x & internet black balled & black listed the ex-solder/prof. PA STATE TROOPER RICHARD T. DRUM calls the prof up 3x & states"I have never seen an investigation like this. This certainly isn't state police protocol nor none I have ever seen.We call people.We talk to people.We communicate with people & we just don't come & bust into their houses.90%of the stuff they took had nothing to do with any charges. I don't get this.That U.D.security guard called OLE FREEMASON AD CRABLE. That U.D.security guard said that stuff.They were walking across the steet to neighbor who they knew were home. They talked to them like they knew them. It was a afternoon on a summer weekday. This is strange. I don't know?" Judge Jerome O.Herlihy stated to the whistleblower late Dec of 2010 in court, "What are University of Delaware security guards headed to Lancaster pa for anyway? Did your attorney even communicate with you at all? Where did you get this guy? He isn't helping you. He is no good. Get rid of him. what kind of deal did these 2 give you? You are not DANGEROUS. Jail is for DANGEROUS people & you are certainly not one of them. Im not going to put you in jail.There is nothing wrong with you.You are depressed. What do they have you on? Yes I will see your evidence. Any that you have. What is he whispering? tell me. Don't listen to him. this is weird. What are U.D.security guards headed to lancaster PA for anyway. I don't get this.You are from York & not from Lancaster? This doesn't make any sense. Something not right here." The U.D.police reports WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES. 3 wks later when HACC answered the PA Gov's order to answer the 70+counts of harassment & discrimination PHRC case No.200800802 & EEOC No.17F200960329, THEY WERE RIDDLED WITH LIES too. Thank you for allowing me to express my freedom of speech thru the FREEPRESS. Thank God we still have those rights...

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