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September 25, 19S61Western Maryland College/Page 5 60 Seconds on Campus What do you think of having dry floors and residence halls? / I \ It makes sense since It's pretty lame when The rule, in my Everyone here had Even though the halls the liquor license at they don't trust you opinion, is useless. to have some sort of are dry people still WMC wasn't before they've even People will drink as responsibility to be drink heavily. renewed and we're metyou. I hateit. long as they can get here. We are all under age in the beer. Most other responsible enough Rouzer, but it makes colleges don't make to drink in the students want to such a big issue. I moderation. drink even more. think the dry dorm rule is reallybeat. NancyFreeman Jim Mitchell Eric Hedeman Cyndi Reeves Rob Carter _ Jonathan Slade What did you say your name was? Names are a newspaperman's Chamberlain has a beard too," she for highlighting our blunders. only victims of such family before we catch a nightmare. No matter how hard said. The best place to assassinate wordslaughter. Sometimes we misspelling. Indeed, names can be a pain in we try to get them right, we Perhaps the prize for the most someone's name, we've found, is can't even spell our own names never seem to succeed totally. butchered name, however, goes to on the front page under a picture. correctly. Last year it took us an the pen. And up until last issue, In fact. it has gotten so that Bernice Beard, the Executive The former Assistant Director of entire semester 10 come up with I've always found a way 10 blame The Phoenix doesn't even Assistant to the President who Residence Life, Cathy Compton, the proper spelling of our everyone else for each act of word in The consider anyone an official news was quoted in a story last year. received this honor when we advisor's name. And then she butchery that appeared about source until we've misspelled his Our reporter identified her as .called her "Kathy." Doesn't took a job at another school. We Phoenix. In my article however, the I conference center, now name at least twice. Thus, we "Bumus Beard." We were able to sound particularly catastrophic, are in the process of offer an up-to-date list of our catch this little beauty before does it? If you consider that there deciphering our new advisor's managed to commit the cardinal most popular contacts. press time, though, and managed are 26 leuers in the English moniker. sin of spelling on nine separate to keep it out of print. (Until alphabet, a "K" is only eight occasions. Yes, I did it myself, Dean of Student Affairs now.) We include it here merely characters off. Still, Compton (I Along the way, when things with no help from anyone else. "Philip Sayer" (as in "one who to show you how far a Phoenix am purposefully avoiding her first were particularly boring in the Mr. George Grier, the special says") has been a frequent victim reporter will go to sneak his own name) was upset And office, we even misspelled the assistant 10 President Chambers of past copyeditors. And our bit of creativity into the paper. understandably so. As a result, names of our advertising who gave me a tour of the new college president, "Richard Actually, the editors would much The Phoenix has tried to limit the manager, managing editor, and facility, became "Mr. George Chambers," was featured in an prefer staffers to cop out and number of subtle misspellings, photography editor. And once., in Greer." Well, welcome, Mr. Grier, to issue soon after he acquired his simply ask the source how to and lake a whole new approach. the masthead where we list our position in 1984. Incidentally, spell his name. We are confident We've decided if we're going to reporters, we created a hybrid of the elite status of an official this second gaffe apparently came that even the most incoherent of get someone mad at us, we two staffers. The result Rhonda Phoenix news source. As I said, are sufficient about when our reporter, a devout administrators could properly might as well go all-out have Ronna time Lollie we Myers. all Usually our by two misspellings this privilege. Due to anyone grant get of the [. fan of the lead actor in theShogun the answer such an inquiry. problem them really mad will at us. our Blatant reporters' names right, most have to my blundering, though, you errors. this Nevertheless, be new then, miniseries, noticed that president vaguely resembled her persists. forte. long since stopped writing. now have nine under your belt. idol. "Well, Richard In fact, we even have a knack But news sources are not the Some even graduate and start a That's one heck of an entrance. ~[---------------------------------