"We're making a giant paper mache Sigma!"

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Spreading the joy from sigma7.

The day an article about a fraternity getting sanctioned appears on the front page of the KSU paper, a couple of guys drive around campus picking up all the copies, claiming there was a typo and the papers are being taken back to be pulped and replaced. Suuuuure.

FWIW, I've never, ever heard of a paper (college or otherwise) running around collecting copies in an attempt to catch an error. It's too expensive, and generally pointless (your basic closing the barn door after the horses have escaped). They just print a correction in the next edition, maybe issue a public apology if the mistake was a whopper. Every time I've heard of people collecting papers to pulp because of "errors," it's always turned out to be some group trying to suppress news they didn't like. Or outright suppress an entire paper they didn't like (the Pundit, the alternative paper when I was in college, often got "error correction" collections courtesy of the fraternities, thanks to its generally anti-frat editorial stance). Sometimes it's political (College Republicans stealing left-leaning papers, Young Democrats stealing right-wing papers), but usually it's frats or sports supporters reacting to an article making One Of Their Own look bad.

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That's happened at the University of Tulsa for Anti-Greek editorials...

Which get the paper flooded with "Greek Censorship On Campus" letters to the editor, making a big f'ing deal out of the shit next week.



I got death threats from football players for a week after I wrote a scathing Letter to the Editor about the laziness of our 1 and 12 football team. (Driving less than a ¼ mile to go to the dining hall, parking in the fire lane because the open spots were too far away.)