"I understand that many of you felt hurt and angered by this message,"

Duke University Official Steps Down After Telling Students To Speak English
"A professor at Duke University stepped down on Saturday after screenshots of an email she wrote warning Chinese students from conversing in their native language went viral on social media.
"I encourage you to commit to using English 100 percent of the time" the email written by Megan Neely read.  

Neely, who was the head of the Master of Biostatistics at the university's School of Medicine, sent the email to first and second-year students in the program.
Neely went on to urge her students to "to commit to using English 100 percent of the time" while on campus or in a professional setting.
In her email to students, Neely wrote that two faculty members had approached her to complain about several first-year international students who were speaking Chinese in the student study and lounge areas The Chronicle, Duke's campus newspaper, reported.
"They were disappointed that these students were not taking the opportunity to improve their English and were being so impolite as to have a conversation that not everyone on the floor could understand," Neely wrote in bolded, underlined typeface.
...The dean of the university's School of Medicine, Mary Klotman, apologized for Neely's email in a letter to the program's students.
"I understand that many of you felt hurt and angered by this message," Klotman wrote. 
...Klotman said Neely had asked to step down after her letter went viral..."
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