How irresponsible can you get?

[SFHoya99]

To answer the thread's question, I can be pretty damn irresponsible.

[McBricks]

theexorcist said:

The reference to Kentucky isn't very clear unless you're a total sports geek and know where GC is located.

So exactly how much of a sports geek is Team Bay Area for actually driving to Georgetown College in Kentucky after the Louisville game last year? By the way, GC was actually founded before GU. Who knew?

[Filo]

mcbricks said:

theexorcist said:

The reference to Kentucky isn't very clear unless you're a total sports geek and know where GC is located.

So exactly how much of a sports geek is Team Bay Area for actually driving to Georgetown College in Kentucky after the Louisville game last year?

To answer that question...pretty damn geeky.

[Saxifrage]

hoopsmccan said:

Thanks for the explanation, I was wondering what bothered you about the article. I thought perhaps you were one of those fancy lawyer types, but that just didn't seem to fit. I'm afraid you lost me on the typo business though. Please expound when you have a chance. That would be terrific! hm

In the magazine world, typos occur a lot, and they’re what proofreaders are supposed to catch. That’s when a word is mistyped or misspelled, or a stray character gets accidentally inserted in a word, like “th9is.”

Errors are when the facts are wrong, and they’re what factcheckers are supposed to catch. Sometimes the errors come from the writer’s deliberate making stuff up—as when the New Republic admitted errors and pulled from its archives 27 articles that the young fraudster Stephen Glass had written.

Usually, though, they’re just mistakes. Here’s Malcolm Gladwell today about a piece he did for the New Yorker: “To my chagrin, I made an error in my New Yorker piece ‘None of the Above.’ In the ‘Bell Curve,’ Charles Murray and Richard Hernstein did not advocate a 'high-tech Indian reservation' for low-IQ groups. Rather, they warned that if current welfare policies continued, we would end up having to build high-tech reservations for those with low IQs--which is a very different argument, obviously . . .”

Admittedly, the line between typos and errors can be a little thin. One of my favorite corrections is this from a couple years ago: “Correction: In the original version of this report, Newsweek misquoted [Jerry] Falwell as referring to ‘assault ministry.’ In fact, Falwell was referring to ‘a salt ministry’ a reference to Matthew 5:13, where Jesus says ‘Ye are the salt of the earth.’ We regret the error. - Newsweek editors, in a story on Liberty University’s debate team.”

Anyway, the Sports Illustrated headline wasn’t a typo but a simple factual error. And one, to their credit, they corrected quickly.

[grokamok]

mcbricks said:

By the way, GC was actually founded before GU. Who knew?

According to their web site:

www.georgetowncollege.edu/history.htm

GC was proposed and chartered in 1829 by the Kentucky legislature and took up residence at the site of the then-defunct Rittenhouse Academy, which, itself, was established in 1798 after the Academy founder's original classical school, founded in 1787, failed. While the school might "trace its roots" to this original school, I doubt that it could be considered the founding of Georgetown College (KY); the Rittenhouse Academy and its predecessor had no legal or true conceptual links to the present institution (though they were both Baptist) as it was only the Academy's land and buildings that were donated to the college.

While GU's first student did not matriculate until 1791, Georgetown College (MD, later Georgetown University, DC) was proposed by Fr. (later Bishop and then Archbishop) John Carroll in 1786, began construction in 1788, was incorporated, with deed to the property, in 1789 and was chartered by Congress in 1815 (see guide.georgetown.edu/slideshows/slides/show11_slide1.html and subsequent slides).

With respect purely to the name "Georgetown" when referencing an institution of higher education in the US, GU has the clear historical high ground.

With respect to the primary subject of the thread, any national story with a headline referencing Georgetown College (KY), especially one that has to do with basketball, should carry a clear disclaimer within the text of the article that the institution in question is not related to Georgetown University (DC).

[Locker]

They are on a roll at SI, after the earlier "You're Not Smart Enough to Run the Princeton Offense" debacle.

[HoyaSinceBirth]

grokamok we had this debate earlier and i beleive you are right, the problem arises because we normally think of the founding date of georgetown universtiy as 1789 and on the entrance sign of georgetown college they claim founded 1787 i believe, which like you point out is pretty bogus. oh well.

[vcjack]

hoyasincebirth said:

grokamok we had this debate earlier and i beleive you are right, the problem arises because we normally think of the founding date of georgetown universtiy as 1789 and on the entrance sign of georgetown college they claim founded 1787 i believe, which like you point out is pretty bogus. oh well.

In that case lets just add these pretenders to our impending class action suit against CNN/SI*

*As I was typing this I spilled corp coffee on my hand, consider yourself warned Corp, do not underestimate our powers of litigation!

[youngjeezy]

to offer a slightly better note:

a "friend" from nova (a guy i went to high school with) just sent me a text message asking me why my players are getting arrested. it was nice being able to respond "they're not, wrong georgetown, but way to read the article instead of just browsing the headline... then again, i wouldn't expect anything more from a soon-to-be-nova grad..."

[moe09]

While we're at it, I say we hit up Google for the advertisements, and after we win we can demolish this ugly library I'm sitting in, and build a new one made out of solid gold.... muahahahaha...

[vcjack]

youngjeezy said:

to offer a slightly better note:

a "friend" from nova (a guy i went to high school with) just sent me a text message asking me why my players are getting arrested. it was nice being able to respond "they're not, wrong georgetown, but way to read the article instead of just browsing the headline... then again, i wouldn't expect anything more from a soon-to-be-nova grad..."

That's a bit complicated for a Nova kid to read in a text message, next time just shorten it to "wtf? my pizza s cold. no tip 4 u"