Correction: On Editorials and Percentages

In this week's staff editorial, "Stop getting us sick," we wrote the following: 

Last Thursday, 90% students visited the health center complaining of sore throats and runny noses.

In fact, that was inaccurate by several orders of magnitude. The sentence should have read,

Last Thursday, 90 students visited the health center complaining of sore throats and runny noses.

Also, even if 90% were the accurate figure, the correct style would have been to write "90 percent."