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Brandon C. Gregoire '95 did not incorrectly reinstate Joshua D. Liston '95 to the council. In fact he did not even reinstate him. The meeting to decide on Liston's reinstatement was recessed. Further, though the headline states that Gregoire violated the Undergraduate Council's by-laws, the first paragraph of the story takes a step back and says he "may" have violated them...
News stories are written in a form called "inverted pyramid." This means that the most important information is presented in the first--or lead--paragraph, and the less pertinent a fact is, the lower it will be in the story...
This form is designed to help readers get a quick overview of a story by reading just the first few lines of text. It also means that editors base their headlines largely on the lead paragraph...
There is much truth to the staff's position; if Clarke meant to present the theories in the first paragraph of her letter to the editors as factual information, then she is guilty of an error in judgment at best and unacceptable prejudice at worst...
...Maull's two-paragraph response--received by PBHA members yesterday--the dean did not offer significant clarification of the October 21 meeting...