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Off for the time between summer and fall. Summer issues were usually 6 pages, there were a couple of 4-pagers and just one 8-pager. As much as 50% of content was provided by wire (KRT, later McClatchy). Michiganotaku 23:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Printing Mondays and Thursdays for spring/summer semester. Usually 6 pages, no full page ads. Cholerashot 22:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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South End error log 2006

For Winter and Summer 2006 error log, see Talk:The South End/Talk 2006#South End error log 2006

I've been asked to hold off posting a mistake to this until after e-mailing them about it. Fair enough. Robert Happelberg 19:59, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I got the same request, too. Sounds kind of reasonable. Having said that, notice that that idiot wrote "wait at least a week." Hi-larious. Having said that, there are more important things on my to do list. Fabulous man away!

Record low number of pages

My secretary brought me today's issue and I asked her if she had let the middle sheet fall out (the one that usually has pages 3 and 4). She said she wasn't sure, but when I got to reading it on my lunch break, I realized there was no middle sheet for her to let fall out. It was just four pages. This is definitely a record low, at least for the past three years. When I went to school there, the paper was a different format (shows how old I am), but I'm sure that reflowed into the current format it would still make need more than six pages. Robert Happelberg 21:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Your secretary probably thinks you're a f-cking -ss hole, that you make her bring you the paper every day it runs just to give you an opportunity to be mean, and that you immediately assumed that since the paper was only four pages she must be so dumb that she allowed a huge sheet of paper to fall out without even noticing it. You probably thought in your head, (pissed off sigh) "Well, if you want something done right, you better do it yourself." You probably don't have many friends or a lover, otherwise you wouldn't have to make fun of a bunch of college kids for forgetting a comma in order to make you feel better about yourself. It just makes you look pathetic. Because no matter how funny or sad it is that someone accidently forgot an accent mark or spelled someone's last name wrong, it's still not as funny or sad as some old man who spends what could be useful moments of his day reading a college newspaper solely to look for mistakes that he can post on a wikipedia site, accompanied with nasty comments. I don't get it, how can someone be such a loser? How do you get to that point in your life, where you decide that this is how you're going to spend your time? Do something useful. That's what's wrong with this world, people who have obvious dedication wasting it on something so inconsequential and mean-spirited.
One more funny thing about Robert Happelberg - In his monthly poetry magazine, cleverly titled, "Bob's Poetry Magazine," he misspells the name of his photographer in 14 consecutive issues. He spells the last name "Delarte" when in reality it is spelled "del Arte." Alonso del Arte was also employed by The South End as a photo editor, then either quit or was fired by Adam Steinberg, and now sits on the publication board that oversees the paper.
However, it is unfair to say that Happelberg is entirely responsible for the error log. While he is one of the main contributors, he is now matched by the former editor, Adam Steinberg, who was fired by the publication board last December.


funny business with Adam

Adam Steinberg was fired by the publication board in a unanimous vote three days before the end of the Fall 2005 semester. Sarah Ryley, the managing editor at the time, was appointed as interim editor to serve the remaining duration of his year-long term.
Charles Maldonado was selected as editor in chief to begin in the 2006 Spring/ Summer semester. He served a news editor during the 2006 Winter semester.

It was very funny stuff, at least to us WSUers. Outside the school, who's gonna care? The reason Adam got fired probably can't be tied to any national controversy the way the "Islam sucks" column and the decsiion not to print the Muhammad cartoons can. Therefore, not encyclopedic. Mikey Slugger 22:58, 31 March 2006 (UTC)


Edited a few things out of the article:

If the paper could be said to look like the Detroit Free Press the previous year, this year it looks more like the Detroit News.

I removed this because it's just ignorant. The paper never resembled the Detroit Free Press and looks nothing like the Detroit News this year. The writer obviously doesn't notice much visually, and would probably think a horse resembled a bike if asked. Okay, so maybe both publications use Times and lines on the page. In fact, The South End staff looked at books of award-winning design to come up with ideas, none of which featured pages from Detroit News.

Next edit, because it's clearly a POV:

The content of The South End, however, shows no improvement in quality.

Many people on campus have commented on the improvement in content, as well as the printer and professionals in the field. Could be POV as well, but shows a major difference in opinion.

Edited this out of error log:

Article TO DO

  1. Research history of the paper 1969 to 2001
  2. Mention other sections (opinion, sports, A & E, sci/tech, etc.)

Debatable measurement of bias

Supposedly the South End is constantly fluctuating in bias.

John Watson     1967 L *....|..... R
                1968 L .*...|..... R
                1969 L ..*..|..... R
Average        1970s L ...*.|..... R
Average        1980s L .*...|..... R
Average        1990s L ..*..|..... R
Wonetha Jackson 2003 L ...*.|..... R
Joseph Wilson   2004 L ....*|..... R
Adam Steinberg  2005 L .*...|..... R
Sarah Ryley     2006 L ..*..|..... R

For comparison, the Wayne Review.

2004 L .....|...*. R
2005 L .....|....* R
2006 L .....|...?. R

Is the Wayne Review even printing this year? And technically, it was a paper of all editorials with the express purpose of printing conservative viewpoints, which the editor freely admits. So there's no real comparison. Writers for the paper also turned down offers to write for The South End, which has a wider distribution, therefor allowing them to spread their conservative message to a broader readership.

Changed spelling of "Riley" to "Ryley," as it appears in every issue of TSE.

Editorial bias is partialy due to the writers, and it's much easier to find liberal columnists than conservative ones on campus. But I doubt that any of these editors would have been opposed to a conservative columnist, it's just that they are so difficult to find. Brian Biglin, who was a conservative columnist during Wilson's tenure for both Steinberg and Ryley when they were the opinion editors, transferred.

The campus is mostly liberal anyway, so it makes sense for the op ed writers to be liberal too.

South End error log 2006

I figure since none of these were first emailed about, they can be erased, too.

Yeah, sweep it all under the rug. Plenty of room there.

Adam, you should know!

  • July 27. Lorraine Chevis and Lorraine Chavez.
  • June 12. Paragraph 8 of article "Dumars responsible for preventing repeat of Pistons' past" refers to Pistons guard Carlos Delfino as "Carlos Delfinos". Then it mentions "Darko Milicics" who in the very next sentence in the same paragraph is referred to as "Milicic (both spellings are wrong, it should read "Darko Miličić"; I know that the paper is capable of printing háčeks because they've done it before in an article where a different diacritic mark was called for). In the final paragraph, "let downs" should be one word because it's a noun (if it was a verb it should be "lets down").
    • note: Regarding the pistons article, the sentence reads "Neither Larry Brown nor Flip Saunders allowed the Carlos Delfinos, Darko Milicics, Amir Johnsons or Alex Ackers to contribute..." Those names are plural, referring to those players and players like them, like saying "the Carlos Delfinos of the world."
  • June 8. Article about new Ikea in Canton has no byline. In that article, Sara Worsham (who is presumably a woman) is referred to as the "fiancé" of Sean Hages (who is presumably a man). Any English dictionary would've told them the gender of the words fiancé and fiancée. Give them points for putting in the accent mark, though.
  • June 5. Sports teaser line is missing from front page. Graystone International Jazz Museum and Hall of Fame is spelled incorrectly throughout the entire article, as Greystone. The mistake is all the more embarrassing because it says Graystone in the picture of the facade. Or maybe Greystone is right after all, and someone changed the E in the picture to an A using Photoshop. We don't need no stinking apostrophes: On front page, article about Pistons begins "A lot of reasons can be attributed to the Pistons early playoff exit." Maybe we do need apostrophes: the page 2 continuation of Student Council article refers to Demond Childers as "Childers" at one point and "Childer's" at another. Plus the Pride article was very boring.
  • June 1. Article on "WSU sexual harrassment hearing" refers to CBS as "Chicano-Boricua studies [sic]." Rev up your DeLorean DMC-12: Page 4 has an ad for a Law School event that took place May 24. Photo credit for picture of spirit rock reads "Charles Maldonado/South End." South End is not the same as The South End, you know.
  • May 25. The apostrophe in "Movement '06" for the DEMF story faced the wrong way. "Historic" on page 2, "Grunow stressed the importance of re-use opposed to razing." Missing word anyone? Page 4 has an ad for a law school event that took place May 24. Note to Sarah on page 5: "Health care" is two words.
    • Note: Editorial staff does not control ad content.
      • Nice excuse.
  • May 22. Photo caption on front page says Hot Club of Detroit has a member called Neil Mattson. The second paragraph of that article mentions a totally different member of the same group called Neil Matson. The weather given on page 2 was wrong. It said "Rainy" but it was very nice and sunny that day. Makes me think they're consistently using day-old weather predictions.
  • May 18. A sidebox for the article "Capped, gowned and hired" says that the top entry-level employer according to CollegeGrads.com is Enterprise Rent-A-Car. The second top entry-level employer is the integer 7,000, the third is Lockheed Martin, the fourth is 4,400, etc. I wonder how you can apply for a job at an integer. Only a computer can screw up like this: the last line of the article about prosthetic arms for soldiers on page 2 got crunched up with the photo credit. Yay, they ran a correction about the Fitness Center! But in typical South End fashion, they screwed it up, the last line says "Both inaccuracies were due to on the part of the editors and writers." There's either a word missing or a word there that needs to be deleted. On page 3, the caption for the still from the movie Over the Hedge tells people to "spend some time in the theater with the kids this some at "Over the Hedge."" What the hell is "this some"? The season after sprung and before autamn. The caption for the picture of artist John Langdon mentions he did the cover for the mystery novel Angles and Demonds, a bootleg version of Angels & Demons. The last paragraph of "rocktometrist" (whatever the hell that is) Zach Norton's column mentions a band supposedly called the "Hentchmen." Something tells me an indie rock band probably knows more about spelling than the chief copy editor of the South End. The caption for the two pictures for the Dearborn post-9/11 story at the top of page 5 says that "Zahraa is located directly next door Takbeer fashions." They forgot about the word "to", but I understand, it's one of the hardest two-letter words in the English language. Do the Arabic names in that story have any chance of being spelled correctly?

Note: While the other errors you've pointed out are legitimate, "The Hentchmen" is the correct spelling of that band's name. Anyone who reads this (or writes it) can look that up quite easily.

  • May 12. "DIA exhibits African American art" Article talks about the Walter O. Evans Collection while the photo caption mentions the completely different Walter O. Evens Collection.
  • May 11. Meghana Keshavan is two people, both of them "Features Editors," as credited for their story "Historical Museum honors bus boycott." Jean Johnson is a technopile: that's what it says at the top of her column on page 3; a "technopile" is not the same thing as the "technophiles" mentioned in the second to last paragraph of the column. Incoming editor forever: the ad "Work for The South End" on page 4 tells applicants to "contact Charles Maldonado, the incoming editor in chief." He'll still be incoming when he's outgoing! Someone needs to be educated on proper headline case: on page 5 the top headline is "City-wide cell phone ban should be state-wide" and the headline below that article is "Return to Sender: Letter from Iran to Bush Shows Weakness of U.N."
  • May 8. Photo caption of Reid's picture says "WSU President Irvin D. Reid soke before the Michigan House..." I didn't know President Reid knew how to seak! On page 3, caption for picture of Red Wings says "The Detroit Red Wings' goalie Manny Legace made the save as the Edmonton Oliers' Ryan Smith, center, ... The Oilers defeated the Redwings 4-3 during game six..." I'm counting four different teams here: the Detroit Red Wings, the Redwings, the Edmonton Oilers and the Oliers.
  • April 24. Hurts to write dashes and apostrophes: Second paragraph of "Time to cram" article talks about something called "emails."
"email" is AP Style, not "e-mail." Apparently, newspapers don't like to waste space and ink on dashes when they aren't needed. You're such a douche. Oh, do you have a life?

Caption of photo of "Troubled museums still a draw" reads "The Detroit Historical Museums Glancy Trains collection..." which I guess is shared by the two or more Historical Museums in Detroit. Article about cheerleaders on page 3 says "There is a good chance he or she are not aware of the school's cheerleading team." I were not aware "he" and "she" were plural nouns.

  • April 20. Redundant redundancies 'R Us: Local news brief on page 2 is headlined "Building permits drop 47 percent drop in region."
  • April 14. More proof WSU students can travel in time: Page 6 has an ad exhorting students to submit stuff to the Community Arts issue. The deadline is yesterday. Phoning it in: Below the paper's name on the front page, it says "A & E: Blips and bleeps come Shaver Hall, page 5," and on page 5 it also says "Shaver" on page 5. If the reporter had bothered to go to the concert in person, he might have noticed that it says "Schaver" in silver letters over the doors, and that's how it was written on the programmes. In that article refers to a composer called Tell Me who wrote a piece called "Parov Stellar." "Students observe Lent" article on front page begins clunkily with "After long last, the 40 days of Lent are winding to a close." On page 3, "Paying a price for stats," an article about MLB stats, says "you can get statistics for free in the copy of the newspaper you are now holding," only there are no MLB stats, only GLIAC.
  • April 10. Too painful to hit the apostrophe key: Student Council election article says Samar Fawaz is "with the slate the Peoples Choice." (It seems that, more often than not, the slate itself cannot decide whether it wants to spell its name with an apostrophe. The paper opted to omit it; "damned if you do, damned if you don't.")
'the Peoples Choice' is the correct punctuation according to the Dean of Students Office.
  • April 7. It's too painful to hit the dash key: Caption of photo on page 2 says "On lookers gathered on Gullen Mall..." Events listing mentions a musical by "Gilbert & Sullvan," two who tried to match the style of Gilbert & Sullivan but came up a bit short. Don't know nothing bout plurals: Caption of photo on page 6 says "...Inge was second among third baseman in fielding percentage..."
  • April 3. "It's getting hot out here," photo caption says two students were "kissing on the lawn in front of Purde-Kresge library." If they had walked a couple of yards, they might have seen that the sign for the library actually says "Purdy-Kresge."
  • March 30 - 31. "New editor selected for The Southend" says he wears "black converse sneakers." I'm guessing those are either shoes that talk or bootleg Converse sneakers. Page 6, "How to take better pictures," third paragraph from last says "During night times, a photo session a tripod is recommended." Though will all the fuzzy, blurry, muddy pictures in The South End, you have to wonder if they take their own advice. One bit of advice is to put subjects off-center. On page 3, Steve is off-center. Unfortunately, the camera didn't focus off-center!
  • March 28. Front page article about mercury-contaminated fish says "High levels of mercury can also cause neurological and respitory problems." Well, as long as they don't cause respiratory problems, I'm not worried, I'm gonna eat up.
  • March 27. Front page article about organ donations says "In the 1930s, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a 40-year experiment known as the Tuskegee Study." Apparently, the study involved time travel, since they were able to get forty years' worth of research in a single decade (the 1930s). Front page article about Latina sorority, title of play ¡Yo Soy Latina! is again missing opening exclamation mark.
  • March 22. Picture of Jay Mohr on page 5 is pixilated. Front page article about Latina sorority, title of play ¡Yo Soy Latina! is missing opening exclamation mark.
  • March 21. Looks wrong but it's actually right: on page 2 "Plexiglas" is spelled correctly. (Of course it's spelled correctly. It is listed in the Associated Press Stylebook under that spelling; it is a trademark.)
  • March 20. Hamas news brief on page 2 talks about "Ismail Haniyeh" in its first sentence and a different man called "Haniyah" in its last sentence. Cause spelling Arabic names right doesn't matter.
  • March 10. Front page Wayne Idol article has no byline.
  • March 7. Page 2 headline says "Al-Jazeera" but photo caption says "Al Jazeera." The name of former Serbian Krajina leader Milan Babić is misspelled as "Babic." Events announcement says a lecture will take place in "Romm 2339." You get there by going to Room 2339 and opening a portal to a parallel universe.
  • March 6. Page 2 one news brief is headlined "Former baseball players has a stroke, surgery." Conjugating verbs in English is just too complicated.
  • March 3. Article about Cass co-op, next to last paragraph on front page lacks concluding period.
  • March 2. "The Towers: Built based on student desires" second paragraph says the bedrooms have "a bed and a desk, with big windows giving it a airy feel." Guess they never heard of the word "an."
  • February 28. Outdated focus group ad was run again.
  • February 27. WSU students have the ability to attend events that will take place in the past: page 4 has an ad for an "Off-Campus Housing Focus Group Date: Friday, February 24." Whoever wrote captions for front page photos is dyslexic: "Rachel Smith (left)" looks like a guy. Page 2 events listing says the Lambda Theta Alpha social will take place in the Hillberry C in the Student Center, a room that shouldn't be confused with the Hilberry C.
  • February 23. It looks wrong but it's actually right: front page article "Restaurateur discusses business in Detroit" also spells "restaurateur" that way in the first line of the article, the spelling approved by Merriam-Webster.
  • February 22. A headline on page 5 refers to someone called "Ginuwine" and the caption of the accompanying photo refers to "Genuwine." A correction was run for another mistake in the February 20 issue.
  • February 21. A correction was run for a mistake about the scope of a student organization; the mistake was blamed on "an editing error."
  • February 20. Lead story headline is in title case as opposed to usual newspaper headline casing in the other stories.
  • February 17. Photo of Robert and Maria on front page doesn't make it clear who is who (e.g., "left to right").
  • February 16. Front page, bottom photo, caption says "Morry Morrownick ... shows off his championship rings he recieved ..."
  • February 15. Cheeky Love on page 6, first paragraph, "My interepertation based on my recent mishap..." The word "señorita" is written twice with the wrong diacritic mark over the N (as "seňorita"), but at least give them an A for effort.
  • February 13. Photo of chip is captioned "Liz Gould ... shows-off [sic] a potato ship..." Page 2 events list announcement is headlined "Same Sex Marriage Debate" but the same topic is referred to as "same-sex marriage" in the body text (heterodashers!) Page 5, "Most people don't care about your band," fifth paragraph from the end lacks concluding period.
  • February 10. They can write "appliquéd" on the front page but not "résumés" on the help wanted ad on page 6.
  • February 9. "World Student Health Organization at WSU aids..." fourth column has a paragraph beginning with a lowercase letter. Oracle on page 6, "I've been talking with the soul of Eddie Van Halen, andit's [sic] not like a tour..."
  • February 8. "Detroit gets rave reviews" on front page, mentions Chris Harry, a reporter for the Orlando Sentinal, the sister newspaper of the Orlando Sentinel. "Fashion party..." on page 5, article by Daquitta Clements, photo by Quitta Clements (maybe they're sisters).
  • February 7. "New incentives up President Reid's pay raise," continued on page 6, last paragraph is terminated in the middle of the sentence. Page 5, "Dog day care hosts fundraiser for AIDS patients," last paragraph gives the wrong area code for the phone number (this was corrected the next day).
  • February 6. Page 5 article by Max Perez has room for headline but not the headline itself.
  • January 31. Page 2, "Muslim Student Associatoin"
  • January 30. Article on car theft, continued on page 2, says that a "thief can steel a car in less than two minutes." As long as they don't steal it! Sudoku puzzle is pixilated.
  • January 27. "Now Playing" on page 5 speaks of a movie called Marry Poppins, presumably a sequel to Mary Poppins in which she gets married. Odd place to use old-style Roman numerals on the sports page, says BGSU closed its swimming program because of "Title VIIII."
  • January 26. More mistakes with "its" and "it's" in page 3 article by Bill Ferguson.
  • January 25. The page 5 article about a comic book says "It's sequential art at its best, and its [sic] back."
  • January 24. The name of Jusuf Kalamperović, a minister in Montenegro, is misspelled in a news brief on page 2 as "Kalomperovic." And is Serbia chopped liver?
Montenegro is independent of Serbia in some matters. Don't feel bad about the ending "Ć," even professional American papers forget about it. Anton Mravcek 22:27, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
There remains the issue of the changed vowel, for which lack of Unicode compliance does not provide an excuse. Robert Happelberg 15:36, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
  • January 23.Student council article identifies Charles Maldonado as an Assistant News Editor but on page 2 his title is just News Editor. In the council article it says "The posters had an error; they read "Mad Athonoy," with an extra "o" not found in the actual name." Are they sure that's the only error? News brief on page 2 says there are photos of "George W. Bush with convicted Lobbyist Jack Abramoff." Because Lobbyist is such a popular baby name. "Song meanings decoded" on page 5 talks about singers Sara McLachlan and Sara McLahlan, no relation to Sarah McLachlan.
  • January 20. On page 5, "Now Playing: Evolution Edition," the first paragraph says that one of the movies opening today is "End of the Sphere," while the movie poster pictured and the second paragraph refer to a different movie called "End of the Spear."
  • January 19. Caption for lead photo reads "Heather Sandlin, ... reads one of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speeches on last night as part of a 24-hour Read-a-thon." Horoscope on page 6 has Today's Birthday predictions for those born on 1-19-066. Next to last paragraph in "Sex a sin" article continued on page 6 reads "He also said sexually satisfaction leads to a more fruitful life." I've heard of "sexual satisfaction," but this is the first time I hear of "sexually satisfaction."
  • January 18. The Oracle, a reliable source of mistakes, on page 6, says that "Any two people, regardless of gender, would be able to co-habitat, [sic] co-own property, raise a family." Event announcement on page 2 says "Bingo in Wayne Down Under and win prizes." Apparently The South End thinks it has the authority to verb nouns.
  • January 17. Weather forecast on page 2 calls for "Partialy [sic] Cloudy" skies. Picture of William F. Coleman III on page 1 looks blurry.
  • January 13. "Sell, Rent or Employ: Use The South End classifieds" on page 4 says that "Inquaries [sic], material and payment to: General Manager 313-577-3498." For the first time in a long time, a correction was run on page 2, regarding yesterday's article about WDET. The misspelling of Ron Perlman's name from Wednesday's issue has yet to be corrected, despite the fact that this is supposedly one of only two kinds of mistakes that The South End corrects ("misspelling of a proper name," see bottom left corner of page 6).
  • January 12. "Student's arrest raises religious freedom issues." Articles says that "the knife ordinance charges against Garcha have been drooped." I hope drooping the charges leads to dropping them.
  • January 11. "Dusty Flicks" on page 3 is about actor Ron Perlman, referred to as "Ron Pearlman" in the caption to the photo on page 5 (the Web version duplicates this inconsistency). News brief on page 2 says "The incident happened while sheriff's were letting prisoners out of a van."
  • January 10. The front page Auto Show article was written by Sarah Ryley, the "Editor in Cheif"! (Hopefully the Editor in Chief will catch her impostor!) Events listing on page 2 mentions a lecture on "Human High-density lipopprotein (HDL)." Maybe a lipopprotein is the same thing as a lipoprotein.
  • January 9. Second sentence of caption of lead photo reads "The protest, however, as not sponsored by the union." (probably meant to say "was not sponsored")