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From: "Foster Schucker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: something to remember


> The University of Kentucky said the following of this rumor in a 8 
> November 2007 press release:
>      The University of Kentucky has announced that a rumor, claiming 
> the school has removed Holocaust material from its curriculum, is not 
> true. The false claim has been circulated via e-mail.
> 
>      The Judaic Studies Program of the University of Kentucky, in 
> conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences Department of History, 
> offers a course designated as History 323: The Holocaust.
> 
>      According to an explanation found on the investigative Web site 
> Snopes.com, a message claiming that schools in the United Kingdom would 
> no longer teach about the Holocaust in their history classes began to 
> circulate via e-mail forwards dated back to April 2007. As the message 
> wound its way across the Internet, someone took the abbreviation for the 
> United Kingdom (UK) to stand for the University of Kentucky, and altered 
> the message to implicate the institution. This version has been 
> forwarded to several people and understandably raised concern among 
> alumni, students and other friends of the University of Kentucky.
> 
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> Please forward this to all the people you sent the orginal message out.
> 
> Just a reminder, before you send something that sounds really outrageous 
> to other people, check snopes.com first. 
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