Ole Miss Fund apologizes for ‘insensitive’ email sent out about estate planning

[LezJepzin]

On Tuesday morning, Ole Miss alumni and donors were greeted with a troubling email — one from the Ole Miss Fund that discussed leaving a portion of your money to the school in your will.

Considering the current outbreak of COVID-19, this was a bad time for the Ole Miss Fund to send out this email.

You can see the message sent to people below, via a tweet from Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio:


The mistake was an honest one, as it was a previously scheduled email. However, the timing certainly was poor. The Ole Miss Fund issued an apology for the unfortunate email on Tuesday afternoon, which you can see below:


Honest?

 

[Son Goku]

Just wanted to say fukk Ole Miss (Miss St and the state of Mississippi too).

 

[saturn7]

Make sure you got that endowment set up before you die.

 

[Savvir]

*tariq smiley*

 

[ORDER_66]

leaving a portion of your money to the school if and when you die?!?! how brazen are these fukking people... just greedy asses crawling out the woodwork...

 

[killacal]

leaving a portion of your money to the school if and when you die?!?! how brazen are these fukking people... just greedy asses crawling out the woodwork...

They most likely owned slaves
What's the surprise

 

[ORDER_66]

They most likely owned slaves
What's the surprise

I mean to ask their alumini to give a portion to the school if you die of the plague tho??? it just boggle my mind...So Brazen...

We need to go back to the days of kicking people's asses that do shyt like this... No one holds these people accountable for anything anymore...

 

[staticshock]

fukk ole miss

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Call a 4 paragraph essay a “mistake” brehs

 

[LeeDoubleLee]

Stupid mistake on their part but in the world of higher ed fundraising, these solicitations are planned months in advance (most schools run on a fiscal year, not a calendar year) Email blasts are usually sent by a 3 party vendor and It is possible that they scheduled this email and forgot about it, but that’s why you have checks and balances to prevent stupid mistakes like this. This is definitely not the time to be asking for money. Whoever dropped the ball on this should be fired for being such a dummy.

 

[8WON6]