Talk:The South End/Talk 2005

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Warrior Spirit Horoscope

Detroit having three new casinos led to the discontinuation of the horoscope.

An interesting hypothesis, except: why would the casinos care what the horoscope of a student paper said? The Student Council objecting would be a more credible hypothesis. Robert Happelberg 22:44, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

The Black Panthers

Theirs a lot of truth to the south end and the black panthers. They was in league in the 70s. just for starters, Look over these links:

I will review those links, and also look at archived South Ends from the applicable period. Robert Happelberg 20:55, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

these days

man, the south end really sucks these days! looks like crap

An opinion removed from the article:

Some believe that the 2002-2003 school year was the pinnacle of The South End's journalistic credibility and overall excellence. The coverage of the War in Iraq, the first anniversary of 9/11, national championships for the Warriors' teams as well as coverage of statewide elections helped make The South End respectable.

Sur, whatever.

How bout 2005? Teh moron-in-cheif of the south end, Adam Steinberg, wants to be called "Adam Aurr" now. What a dumass! You can call me Mike Alwaysright while your at it.

Today Adam Steinberg put a note in the paper admitting he couldn't use the pen name "Adam Aurr" anymore because just now he realizes it's against the bylaws of the paper. I had heard lots of good things about Adam Steinberg (all of them from the time before he was Editor-In-Chief). But this one act of utter stupidity completely vacates any good impression I may have had of him. Robert Happelberg 20:13, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

their was an article yesterday about oral sex, and they managed to make that topic sound boring! Teh tribute today to Rosa Parks was pretty damn lane.

South End error log 2005

December 14 Headline for news brief about Patriot Act used two different font sizes.
December 13 Two headlines from page 3: "Holiday Drink Recipies [sic]" and "For more info about seasonal posistions [sic] at your local mall:"
December 12 First line of "Studies" article continuation on page 2 uses two en dashes instead of a single em dash.
December 9 News brief headline says "Schwarzeneggar [sic] hears last appeal for gang leader." His name is correctly spelled Arnold Schwarzenegger in the paragraph following. So it's a good bet students' names are misspelled in today's issue. The name of Perry Bible Fellowship artist is misspelled as "Nicolas Gruewitch." In "Top 10 perks of being Republican," #10 says "If you have any questions on issue," and #3 says "It's fun drive around the ghetto in the safety of your Hummer."
December 8 Article about Warriors basketball third straight loss has a quote from coach David Greer that ends with a comma and lacks a closing quotation mark.
December 7 Bow Tweh's front page article is headlined "WSU's new "fundraiser" to up privite [sic] donations". I sure hope they keep privite donations private! One of the quotation marks in the Hussein trial news brief was in the wrong direction. Mike Blank's pseudo-humorous "Oracle" claptrap can always be counted on to have plenty of spelling and grammar mistakes, and today's installment is no exception: it refers to "the captivating skull of Mao, from Being, China," (a town far, far away from Beijing) and says that circuit-bending is a "synergy of human innovation and electronic gadgetery [sic]." The Fusion section was nothing more than a prepared page taken from KRT.
December 6 The name of contributing writer Jacqueline Bethel K. Mougoué is for some reason hyphenated. Makes me doubt the authenticity of the accented e at the end.
December 5 News brief about a sleep sex defense in a rape case says that the "victim alledged [sic] that she met the man at a party." A correction was run for Friday's misspelling of Rick Earnest's name. Earnest is a bigwig in the Dean of Students Office, so he was able to persuade the paper to run a correction; students whose names are routinely misspelled don't get corrections.(it's actually not true, the paper did not re-run the story or run a correction on the spelling of his name. it was changed on the online version of the story.)

It is true. Take another look at your print copy, look on page 2, above the fold.

December 2 The upper left corner of the front page quotes Oprah Winfrey comparing duct tape to The Force, but showing their usual disrespect for American mythology, The South End failed to capitalize the Force. Headline of first news brief is "Mexico opposes Bushs fence," showing the paper's ignorance of apostrophes. Headline of second news brief is "Withdrawl [sic] 'not a plan for victory'."
December 1 The top headline on the front page is "50 years ago, one act of definance sparked a movement." So that's how Rosa Parks upset the establishment, by definancing her mortgage when the white man wanted her to refinance at a higher rate! The picture of Old Main on the lower half of the page has the building look a lot skinnier than it does in the usual picture of the same building on the upper half of the page.
November 30 Ferris Bueller (from the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off) is quoted on the top left corner of the front page without acknowledging either that he's a fictitious character or who wrote the screenplay. Given The South End's lack of respect for fiction, this is not surprising. The pseudo-humorous Oracle on page 2 speaks of a "dubs decision" (probably meant "dubious decision"). An advertisement on page 4 for the Civil Rights Issue of December 1 says that "the deadline for submissions are 2 days before publication." Ignoring subject-verb agreement for a minute, what's the point of announcing an expired deadline?
November 29 The American flag on page 4 is pixelated.
November 28 The article "Seinfeld gets better with age" on page 3 is missing at least one line: the last line of the first column is "a puffy shirt and exclaims to Kramer, "But I don't" and the next line on the next column is "door like a rabid squirrel." Picture of a parking meter on page 2 is pixelated and splotchy. All pictures on the sports page (page 5) are pixelated. There's a "poem" on page 2 which has neither rhyme nor meter.
November 23 A news brief says a man was "found guilty of Bush assination [sic] plot." Maybe trying to assinate someone isn't as bad as trying to assassinate them. Ahmed Abu Ali "was found guilty on charges of conspiring to support and supportin [sic] al Qaeda," which might not be the same organization as al-Qaeda. In a different story on page 1, which is either about "Program 350" or "Project 350" or "project 350," Janice Cook-Johnson is quoted as saying "I'm just holding the reigns [sic]." What a coincidence: the two sports stories on the front page were written by Stephen Knoche, the sports editor, and the pictures were taken by his twin brother Steven Knoche. The Oracle on page 2 says: "The winner is the a classic from one hundred years ago." He didn't know which grammatical particle to use, so he just used both.
November 22 "Hope and Fear" A detainee in American custody was "sexually harassed," which perhaps is not as bad as being harrassed. The entire article on mortgage fraud from Friday's paper was rerun in today's paper. A picture of pills on page 6 is pixellated.
November 21 A news brief showed the paper's ignorance of apostrophes. Talking about violence in Egypt, the brief said that an NDP "thug" "killed someone involved in an opposing candidates [sic] campaign." The news brief about Samuel Alito tries to make the Senate's work sound artistic, saying that a filibuster "could be evoked" (rather than invoked). The sports section (page 5) has a "calender" [sic] of sporting events, and a pixilated picture of basketball player Cherita Smith.
November 17 In an extremely rare occurrence, a correction was published, but for some reason it was called a "retraction" rather than a "correction."
November 16 A news brief says Major League Baseball will "start testing for amphetimines [sic] next season."
November 15 A news brief refers to David Hicks as the "Australina [sic] Taliban."
November 14 Top news brief headline reads "Women confesses to bombing involment." But the paragraph that follows only talks about one woman. Besides, how do you bomb an involvement? "Firty-seven [sic] people were killed in the attack." Another news brief says Christopher Colombo "is charged with rackeeteering [sic] and extortion."
November 11 Pictures in the sports section are pixelated.
November 10 City council article gives council member Alberta Tinsley-Talabi's name as "Alberta Tinsley Talabi." A news brief about San Francisco is headlined "No handguns in San Fran" (granted that this shorthand is used sometimes, but here it looks like they ran out of space). The name of Ruby Tuesday manager in the campus food article, given as "Susan Rafftery," is highly likely to be misspelled.
November 9 An event announcement was put in the news briefs section. The news brief about secret U.S. prisons in Europe was not given its own headline. "The Oracle" on page 2 can't even make up words convincingly. Titled "2067, Trans-speciests [sic] demand right to interbreed," this pseudo-humorous claptrap forecasts the USA will be the "Corportized [sic] States of America" by that time, and gives one name for those persons as "manamals [sic]." Horoscopes on page 6 are not credited.
November 8 News brief about false info for Bush says "Months later Bush went public with chareges [sic] that Iraq..."
November 4 Article about South End staffer getting arrested said she "said she was not marandized [sic]" (not given the Miranda warning). A supposedly humorous list of top 10 rejected car names on page 3 has for No. 8 "Ponitac [sic] Piss Off", and the "Cadillac Kervokian [sic]" at No. 5 (it's not funny, just sad). The authorship of the horoscope on page 6 is not credited, and the phrase "Today is a 8" is repeated for Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius.
November 3 News brief about Denver marijuana measure says adults may "posses [sic] up to one ounce." News brief about bird flu says travel restrictions will be put in place "if a person-to-person bird flu influenza were to break out" (sort of like talking about an "STD disease"). Headline of third news brief is "Man sued over-Grandson's illegal downloads." The name of the photographer for the bottom picture on page 1 is missing one letter.
November 2 An article on page 1 about the Day of the Dead uses the Spanish word "ofrendas" to begin the sixth paragraph. Just a sentence later in the same paragraph it's misspelled as "oferndas."
November 1 On the front page they couldn't decide on whether to use a picture of a OneCard or a OneCard machine, so they put in both and neither looks very good. The article about Rebekka Armstrong says "The first thing you noticed was her 15-inch biceps, a very powerful visage on anyone." Apparently, "biceps" and "visage" mean the same thing. Perhaps the biggest mistake, however, is misspelling the name of one of their own reporters, Jessica Rivait. Her page 3 opinion piece is credited to "Jessica Riviat. This is not the first time they misspell her name. A correction was run on page 6, about the ACLU and MCRI mentioned in the Oct. 27 article, again.
October 31 News brief about CIA leak investigation says Dems want Rove to step down "due to his involvement of a CIA agents [sic] name being leaked."
October 28 News brief about Miers says "the withdrawl [sic] is because..." On page 7, sports reporter Adam Hayes identifies the country he lives in as "the US of Abut." In an extremely rare event, two corrections were run, on page 6. One of the corrections involved the ACLU and MCRI as mentioned in an October 27 article.
October 27 The syndicated crossword took up all of page 7.
October 26 "The Oracle" on page 2 says "The fall in finally here." Does that mean the fall is in here? A headline on page 3 says "Juluis [sic] Caesar: WWJCD @ WSU." A photo caption correctly spells the title of the play, Julius Caesar but misspells the name of the theatre ("Hillberry" instead of "Hilberry") and appears to screw up the name of the actor in the title role, some man named "Thomkps." In the body of the article he is referred to as "Jeff Thomakps," but in all likelihood neither spelling is correct. The screenshot caption for a page 5 article about OpenOffice 2.0 says "one of the largest differences between 1.15 and 2.0 is aestetics [sic]." Websites of the week says that at killsometime.com you can "watch video's [sic] like, "Man with thorn stuck through eye"."
October 25 Caption for pumpkin carving photo says the pumpkins will be "put on display at Wednesdays [sic] Halloween party." A news brief about an arrested nude tourist identifies the arresting police department as "Police In India."
October 24 A filler ad on page 6 urges readers to "team up with The South End ... Contact Adam Steinberg, the editor in cheif [sic], by writing asteinberg@southend.wayne.edu."
October 21 A news brief is titled "Sadaam's co-defendant's lawyer's kidnapped" but in the paragraph the name is given as "Sadddam Hussein." (The names of less prominent Arabs are quite likely misspelled too). On page 3, the review of the movie Dreamer has no byline.
October 20 A news brief says "Sadaam Hussein pleaded not guilty." It goes on to say that Saddam Hussein "refused to state his name to the judge," probably because he knew at least one paper in America would get it wrong!
October 19 A news briefs headline says "Miers supported abortion." The little paragraph says the opposite, that Harriet Miers supported a constitutional amendment banning abortion. So which one is it? If it's the second one, was she supportiong an amendment to the U.S. Constitution or a state constitution?
October 18 All photos on front page much blurrier than usual, page elements misaligned. Page 6 filler ad says "Stay tuned for tomorrows [sic] edition for full coverage ..."
October 17 "Support WDET" The question "So how do we fight this corporate menace." has a period instead of a question mark in the print edition. Page 6 is missing a page number and the top right headline on that page says "vollyball" instead of "volleyball."
October 14 "Stewie Griffin’s past present revealed" Review states Family Guy is about "a family from Maine." The show is in fact set in Rhode Island. A correction has not been run and the mistake stands in the online edition.
October 7 "International student, 17: Kazim Yakub" The wunderkind's name is spelled "Kazim Yakub" in the article and "Kazim Yukab" in the photo caption. Which one is right? Page 2, "Professors have no boundries [sic] when publishing opinions on faculty Web pages."
October 4 A correction was run for a mistake about a Detroit Tigers statistics on the previous day's paper.
July 25 Detroit mayoral candidate Freman Hendrix's name was misspelled "Freeman." A correction was run three days later.
March 11 "After 9 years behind bars, an innocent man tells his story" Ken Wyniemko's name is misspelled "Wyniekko" a few times in the article. No correction was run.
March 2 "Although current, Wikipedia not always reliable source of information" The online version misspelled "Wikipedia" as "Wikipepedia." Several Wikipedia users wrote letters, which were ignored or ridiculed. Phone calls were not answered at all. This was noted in the Wikipedia Signpost of March 7, but it wasn't until the author of the article read it on May 11 that he fixed the error on the South End website. He petitioned the Signpost to change their article accordingly, which they did the next day (instantaneous, compared to how long it took the newspaper to fix their mistake). The moral of the story is: an open source encyclopedia is a far more reliable source of information than a college newspaper.

From January through July, the comic strip Perry Bible Fellowship was run without a byline. When the Metro Times started running it in September, acknowledging Nicholas Gurewitch as the author, the South End followed suit but misspelled his name as Gurewich at first.

Claim about Publication Board

An anonymous user with IP address 69.246.43.19 added the following to the error log:

December 10. Adam Steinberg was sacked on Friday after a three meeting. The Pub-board went into a secret closed session and then announced their decision. It was the last act of outgoing student chair. The new student chair has been fired twice by Steinberg for failing to turn in articles on time. He claims there is no conflict of interest. At the time of the decision the board had four empty seats. The board went on record saying it refused to cite specific reason. It also went on record that they believed that did not have announce the exact vote. The ramifications of decisions are striking. The pub board has now set a precedent of being able to sack any editor-in-chief at any time for no specific reason.

This is very interesting, but not the point of the error log. Also, one line describing the Oracle as "pseudo-humorous" was amended by 69.246.43.19 to read just "humorous". I agree with neither assessment. I think "non-humorous" would be more appropriate, but that's just my opinion. Robert Happelberg 14:55, 12 December 2005 (UTC)