The advisory encouraged students to inform the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) if they notice a fuel-like smell from any bottled beverages.
Some Leverett House residents were confused about the details of this incident last night because they received e-mails that said the victim was an undergraduate, not an employee.
"Do not purchase soda bottles from vending machines at Leverett or
elsewhere on campus until further notified," the e-mail said. "An undergraduate was hospitalized today after drinking soda from a vending
machine bottle that was contaminated, possibly with diesel fuel."
Glenn R. Magid, senior tutor of Leverett, the author of the e-mail, said he received the information from Fithian.
Fithian denied he ever told Magid that a student was hospitalized.
"Glenn must have misunderstood," Fithian wrote in an e-mail.