Correction: Missing word in column

In Danny Haupt's opinion column in the May 2 issue of the S&B, the first word was missing. His opening paragraph should have read:

At Grinnell we have a tendency to bitch on a pretty regular basis about pretty much everything. Some of the loudest and most frequent complaints are often about the college, itself, and the perceived failures of administrators and trustees to listen to students. But when the trustees presented themselves last Thursday to talk to students, not too many showed up.

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."

Our apologies...

Just a quick note: we hope everyone liked our cover story about Matthew Atherton '95, the Grinnell alum who's achieved his lifelong dream to be a superhero thanks to Stan Lee and a Sci Fi Channel reality show. We had a lot of fun making a comic to draw attention to that story, but unfortunately due to miscommunication with our printers that comic didn't turn out in red like it was supposed to. Here's a quick look at what it was supposed to look like; we'll get this issue's PDF online as soon as we can.

Corrections

No one is perfect, not even the S&B (we know, shocking). In this week's issue, we made two mistakes that we would like to correct.

On Page 4, in the Features Section, we inadvertently switched the profiles of two of our new RLCs. Brad Menard of Smounker fame is from Oxford, New York. He received his masters at Iowa State. CND RLC Jennifer Bieniek is from Fergus Falls, Minnesota. It is she who thinks college students are the best population on Earth.

And on Page 10, in Sports, we erroneously reported that Courtney Smith '09 is missing this weekend's volleyball match due to academic probation. Quite the contrary; she has been on the Dean's List since she got to Grinnell and is missing the match because of an important biology lab that she couldn't miss. That makes a bit more sense, doesn't it.

We truly regret these errors and we are very sorry for any pain this has caused. We will print corrections in next week's edition.