Full text: E-mail sent to Asma Al Yamahi

Below is a copy of the e-mail Dr Paul Buchanan sent to Asma Al Yamahi.

Dear Asma,

I say this reluctantly but not so subtly: you are not suitable for a graduate degree. It does not matter if your father died or if you have a medical certificate.

I have been too nice and given you too high marks all along (at C+). I do not anticipate that you will do better in the final exercise. You are already a day late.

The extension is meaningless because you have not attended the last few classes and are the worst performer in the class.

Of course by a far stretch, you will have the obituary of your father, but even if available and the student health people might have believed you, I do not.

You are close to failing in any event, so these sort of excuses -culturally driven and preying on some sort of Western liberal guilt - are simply lame.

Prove that your father died and you were distraught and unable to complete assignments and - in spite of your abysmal record to date as an underperforming and underqualified student - and perhaps you might qualify for an extension to get a C-.

But as it stands, you will flunk since you are already a day late and your track record is poor. By the way, are you a Hoadley student? That would explain a lot of things.

In a word: NO - I do not accept your extension request.

PGB

Paul G Buchanan