Even the subject line in an email can get today’s students all in a tizzy.

Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix reports:

College president apologizes for saying ‘All Lives Matter’

Smith College President Kathleen McCartney has apologized for using the term “All Lives Matter” as the subject line in a campuswide email she sent recently, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reports:

McCartney sent two emails Friday, which were obtained by the Gazette from a Smith faculty member. The first, with a subject line reading “All Lives Matter,” was sent … with a list of actions that would [be] taken on campus to heal those in pain, to “teach, learn and share what we know” and to “work for equity and justice.”

Nearly six hours later [she] sent a second email expressing regret that she was unaware the phrase “all lives matter” was used by some on social media as a counter to the “#BlackLivesMatter” movement protesting the grand jury decisions not to indict police officers in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. …