Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhibit emotions in public." Nidorf notes that youthful Indochinese are so conditioned to polite behavior that they hesitate to complain. She recalls the case of a Cambodian girl who was given the wrong textbook but said nothing. Because she was afraid to tell the teacher about the error, she suffered for months as she tried to keep up with the class. Indeed, the view of Asian Americans as passive and obedient is a stereotype that teachers tend to reinforce by not urging students to express themselves, says Hunter College's Hune...
FOOTNOTE: *Conducted by telephone on Aug. 17-19 among 600 adult Americans. The sampling error is plus or minus 4%. "Not sure" responses are not included...
...Crimson regrets the error...
...extremely irritating to realize that the only time Harvard's oldest newspaper can find the space to comment of PBHA is when they print error-laden pieces of sensationalist trash. Nordhaus's editorial speaks of "serious mismanagement within the North Yard's PBH headquarters," but I really don't feel Nordhaus is in any position to comment on PBH. He obviously knows little of PBH's legal status or activities, and his comments on the Keylatch accident show how little he knows about summer day camps. The most serious injury suffered in the Keylatch van accident was a fractured collar...
After editors in New York discovered the mistake, Reporter Fox Butterfield, who wrote the initial story, drafted a correction. Whitney and the editors eventually agreed that the error should not simply be noted on page 3, where mistakes are usually acknowledged, but be placed on the bottom of the front page. Frankel, however, decided to put the correction at the top. "We felt we had to tell the world loud and clear, 'We were wrong,' " he said. "We are laying down history...