I hadn’t even unfolded my crisp new Daily this first day of classes when a glaring error jumped right off the front page at me.

A question posed to president Geoffroy asked, “Have you ever been campeniling?”

For those who didn’t catch it, it should be campAniling. Seeing a typo in the Daily is quite common and not a big deal, but this one has failure written all over it. What makes it such a failure you ask? The first day of class, first print for a new staff, the front page (in bold no less), an interview with the new president, and a word that is near and dear to the hearts of all Iowa-Staters.

For the sake of all the new students here, I would hope that you print a correction so as to avert a four-year plague of misspellings caused by a tainted first exposure to the word campanile. If the copy editor gets a pink slip, I volunteer for the interim because I just can’t stand the pain.

Bad copy editor, bad!

Ken Hoevelkamp

Graduate Research Assistant

Civil & Construction Engineering