Argus editors are not perfect, but neither are our writers. Here are some of our favorite lines that we caught before print. These are actual lines from articles submitted by writers this year, with editorial comments in italics.
5. The official end of the indoor track season took place at Wesleyan’s Bacon Fieldhouse last weekend as Wesleyan hosted the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships. […] Both Owen Kiely ’06 and Ellen Davis ’07 qualified to go onto the Division III national competition next weekend at Terre Huate, Indiana.
“My season’s not over yet,” said Kiely.
So it’s not the official end of the season then…
4. High hopes for the women’s cross-country New England Small College Athletic Champions (NESCACs) disappeared over the weekend, just like last week’s beautiful weather.
Figure out what NESCAC actually stands for and stop writing sports articles.
3. Geneive Abdo, senior analyst at the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and liaison for the United Nations’ Alliance of Civilizations project, spoke Fridaily about the nature and role of Islam in post-9/11 America. She argued.
She argued Fridaily… sounds like a pretty awesome lecture!
2. Also, it was mentioned by the upperclassmen that said this that, when they were underclassmen, the current upperclassmen said similar things, and the group discussed the potential of it not being the number increasing, but rather an increased level of comfort.
The admissions office is cringing.
1. The captain, 52, suffered a heart attack and died at his desk on Nov. 3.
“He was a firefighter with a big heart,” said President of the Middletown Firefighters Union Matt Scarrozzo.
Awful, awful quote placement.
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