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"This is to confirm that when Ms. Obama’s record was entered into the Student Data Base, an error had been made and the month was entered as August (8) and not September (9). The staff person made an honest mistake since on the original record the 9 is typed on the line which makes the 9 look like an 8. Our office investigated this, found that the class did not begin until September so corrected the on-line transcript changing the month from August to September."

Just to beat this dead horse a little further.

What she wants you to believe is that the on-line computer transcript is an original record--it wasn't.

The two column form is presented as the original entry document. A form like this (but somewhat different--three columns instead of two) was the original entry document for all students in the 60's and it was maintained permanently and for every student from that period of which I am aware and I am aware of several of them, that document still exists, and is still in the original pin binder.

The University says earlier students were converted from the original to the computer at a later date. That might have happened on a case by case basis although again, I am not aware of any single example of a student whose records were so converted.

But also, having seen and worked only from a photocopy of the original two column form, the original isn't typed as a 9 either--it is an 8. That is a close enough call that if you were working with an original, you might have a different view--but in the photocopy I have looked at, the original is an 8.

And although not conclusive, I see that as supporting the thesis that what really happened is that what is presented now in the two column form was really a fraudulent record prepared to support the fairy tale.

However the conclusive evidence is that although a two column form like the one presented may have been used in later periods, in 1961 the only form in use of which I am aware had three columns, not two. The form is not a 1961 form.