Editorial Board

Now that some of the dust has settled and the semester has officially begun, we’d like to take the opportunity to welcome you back to another year of The Student Life. In typical fashion, the new semester brings with it a fresh and ebullient new staff here at TSL, and

A teaser that appeared at the bottom of the front page last week mischaracterized the tone of the article it referred to, which described plumbing problems that forced the Sagehen Café closed for two days last week. The headline for that article seemed to imply that the pipes that serve

A story by Ben Conway last week did not include his TSL position title. Ben Conway is the Opinions Editor for TSL, and once opened for Gym Class Heroes. In a sub-headline about No-Chella last week, we incorrectly stated that KSPC presented the festival. CCLA presented the festival, but with

There are lots of ways you could die in college. Now, you can add chicken pox to the list. Currently, some person—or people—in Lyon dorm has chicken pox. There’s no need to panic; chicken pox doesn’t usually kill young people. But the fact that a student got the chicken pox

In article about this year’s Class Day speaker, Pomona College Trustee Scott Olivet PO ‘84 was incorrectly listed as having overseen marketing for Nike subsidiaries, including Converse and Hurley. In fact, Olivet oversaw all operations at the Nike subsidiaries, not just marketing. The article also incorrectly said that Olivet oversaw

A photo of comedian Russell Peters published Mar. 12 was credited to TSL photographer Michael Benesch. The photograph actually appeared on http://www.schememag.ca. The annual TSL Joke issue published Apr. 1 was entirely fictional. The Student Life regrets these errors.

If the debate over dining hall worker unionization is to result in any tangible progress, parties on both sides of the issue need to drop vague rhetoric and move toward concrete action. Rather than talking through blog posts and cc’d emails, the parties must come together at some point to

In the Mar. 5 issue, news staff writer Nik Tyack’s name was misspelled as “Nik Tyak” in the byline for “City Approves Partition of Bernard Field Station.” We also omitted the “C” in his last name (there is no “C” in the first, we’re sure) on articles he wrote in

If the debate over dining hall worker unionization is to result in any tangible progress, parties on both sides of the issue need to drop vague rhetoric and move toward concrete action. Rather than talking through blog posts and cc’d emails, the parties must come together at some point to

A headline for an article on Addie Salomon on page one listed her as a member of the Class of 2010. Salomon is actually a member of the Class of 2012. In an Opinions article on Haiti last week, we incorrectly printed “Media Cov-” in place of a byline. The