How and why some students learned their class had been canceled

——Original Message——

From: Jennifer Bottomley

Subject: PSCI 291-301 Canceled

Sent: Sep 13, 2011 2:23 PM

PSCI 291-301 is canceled.

We are so sorry for this last minute cancellation.

With Dr. Henry Teune’s passing, this course should have been cancelled

over the summer and

was an oversight.

Yep, that’s how a University of Pennsylvania political science class found out last week — waiting in their seats on the first day, I believe — that the professor had died several months prior.

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.