Beaver
Falls - On Tuesday, March 20th, almost 7 months since the start of the
2011-2012 academic year, the Student Development office made the
realization that their mass-produced student handbook has “Handbook”
spelled incorrectly.
Dr.
Mike Loomis, Dean of Student Development, was confronted by Cupboard
reporters mid-afternoon on Tuesday and handed an issue of the “Hanbook.”
“What is this?” Loomis questioned, aghast at such an obvious error.
“Please tell me this is only copy with this mistake on it.”
Unfortunately,
over 1400 copies of the Student Handbook have been issued to students
this year. A recent poll shares that over 75% of students had also
overlooked the lack of the letter “d.” Of that 75%, an astonishing 12%
admitted to having looked at the handbook more than once.
“I really don’t’ think it’s fair that we are graded so
intently on our grammar in our classes, while Geneva is mass-producing
the guide to our entire education with a misspelled word in bold, size
76 font”, says Emily Bestor, a Senior English Major.
While many annoyed English majors share this belief, the
majority of students find it to be “downright comical.” Many have
claimed to have read through the entire handbook just to see if they can
find more errors.
Student Development plans to cover up their mistake by
passing the error off as a test to see if anyone actually cares about or
uses the handbook.
I spent more time on the roof tiles than I did on spell check.
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