Students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, are very, very sorry they posted some comments about Malia Obama‘s visit to their university.

An editorial entitled “Sorry, Malia Obama” appeared in The Brown Daily Herald this past week. In it students expressed their most humble apologies for offending the First Daughter in the 17-year-old’s visit to the school. Here is some of what was written:

The college application and selection process is stressful for most students who go through it, but one can only imagine how much the stress multiplies when the whole nation is watching. That is what Malia Obama is experiencing right now. News outlets as prominent as the New York Times are covering her touring process, and students at elite colleges across the country cross their fingers and chat over dining hall food about how cool it would be to go to the same school as President Obama’s daughter.

And. . .

It is a shame that Malia was unable to visit Brown and enjoy herself at a party without several news headlines coming out about it the next day. While it is understandable that so many students were excited about her visit, it is likely that few of us would enjoy having strangers take pictures of us while we were unaware and post them on the Internet.

Good heavens! What did these students do? Did they photograph her disrobing? Did they video her twerking à la Miley Cyrus? Was she photographed making out with a Brown frat boy?