A recent issue of your publication had a letter in which a student complained about a section of the campus smoking policy that would punish all members of a campus organization if any member of that group violated the policy.
I would like to bring it to your attention that my organization’s name has been printed wrong in this week’s issue of The Horizon. In the “Wii bowling raises big bucks for Big Brothers Big Sisters” article, three organizations were listed as having participated in the event: Campus Life, Financial Aid and Phi Eta Kappa, but Phi Eta Kappa is not an organization on campus. This is a hybrid of two organizations.
I just want to point out that while Ahlaen Simic’s article was funny, at the same time, it wasn’t exactly factual. There were 125 caring, concerned, and certainly not apathetic people assembled in the Hoosier Room watching the inauguration. The Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and the College Democrats had fliers up advertising the event, and it was also in that week’s Planet.
Readers know that The Horizon is a forum for aspiring journalists, and, therefore, expect to see a range of writing styles, points of view and even some mistakes. However, multiple factual inaccuracies in a single article are unacceptable, even for a student newspaper.
Adult or not, all of us make mistakes from time to time. However, the broadcast editor, “I am an adult, thank you,” Elle Morgan, needs to do some research before putting her opinions out there before the public.
I was reading your article “Biology Lecturer Promotes Field” that was posted online on Nov. 22. I would like to let Susan Reigler know that we do not live in the most technically advanced country in the world, in fact, far from it.
With the current economy, not much hiring is happening. On top of that, one of our children was hospitalized for five days while doctors tried to come up with a diagnosis.
Last week’s disguised Student Government Association members cartoon by Scott Gillespie was cute. I imagine it produced the common reaction of, “Hey, that’s right — I don’t know any SGA members, but maybe I’ve seen the president around. What’s the deal?”
It should be intuitive that our governmental leaders are held to higher standards — from Congress to the SGA. The more troubling thing is that Korff’s reflex is defensive rather than humility, an apology and repentance.
I was reading a snippet in this week’s paper called “10 ways to screw the student body” and I am not very pleased with how it was making fun of IU Southeast and the fact that no one had their name next to it. Who wrote that again?
Recently, I returned to IU Southeast after a few years away, and I was surprised to see that my e-mail continued to build up long after I left. A thousand of them stacked up in the three years I was gone.