May
21
2011
Graduation gaffe: Congrats, “Univeristy” alums
Posted by: Leigh Finnegan in News, Vox Populi, tags: Commencement 2011, how much does it cost to hire a copy editor?, typosUpdate: University Registrar John Q. Pierce sent an e-mail to campus press organizations apologizing for the error.
“We recognize that the tradition of excellence we celebrate today far exceeds this oversight,” he wrote. Those who want to obtain a corrected copy may do so by e-mailing mcevents@georgetown.edu.
Georgetown’s 2011 Commencement book contains the name and high school of every graduating senior, the name, college, and discipline of every graduating graduate student, and loads of other quasi-useful information, including a brief history of our fine University.
You know what else it contains? A pretty egregious spelling error, emblazoned across the bottom of the front cover. Here’s a closer look:
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smh
@Tim
There’s not really much else to say.
#wellplayed
Someone WILL be fired.
Looks like a classic mixup!
I doubt anything will happen. Mistakes happen, but how nobody caught this is unbelievable. I bet they didn’t even open the boxes till the day off. What a send off for its graduates.
Hey, we made Gawker!
http://gawker.com/5804354/georgetown-univeristy-has-some-trouble-with-spelling
Halp me out – I don’t the prablem.
Someone will be fired? Come on, the university lost a harddrive with the unencrypted social security numbers of 38,000 students, alumni and faculty and no one was fired. http://blog.absolute.com/georgetown-university-data-breach-receives-public-criticism/
You punks think some little thing like an obvious typo on the front of a commencement book printed in the thousands that students will keep for decades will matter? Heh. Cute.
They managed to get my name right, so right now I’m picking my battles.
I can always count on old-Georgetown to botch something. The entire staff needs a overhaul. Good luck getting a donation from me.
I don’t think anyone will be fired, but I would almost bet that the Univer-isty reprints them and sends them out to parents. Don’t want to chance that a typo would screw them out of any donation money…
It was a funny distraction from feeling like I was melting to death yesterday, though.
I think you accidentally a word.
@ Mike Duncan
*AN overhaul
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