Did you know Collegian editors enjoy nothing more than reading complaints about our paper?

No, seriously — in a field that is all about facts, the only thing worse than getting something wrong is not correcting it. Help us out, and tell us when we mess up.

We strive for accuracy, but alas, we’re human — worse than that, we’re students on a deadline. Mistakes happen, and they’re often not happy little accidents. We want to fix them.

As journalist Peggy Noonan wrote, when you fail in journalism, you will fail publicly. Sometimes it gets picked up by the Hillsdale meme accounts Thursday afternoon, but sometimes we only hear about an error months or years later when a classmate or professor airs a private grievance. 

Better than allowing the error to fester, do us a service and present us with the opportunity to correct our mistakes. The Collegian is an educational effort as much as it is an effort to deliver information.  We are happy to correct errors and explain edits. 

There is no use in holding a grudge against the News editor for dropping part of your title, misquoting you, or spelling your name “Kaleigh” instead of “Kaylee.” It doesn’t help anyone to keep it to yourself, and we may not know about the mistake until you point it out. Though articles go through many rounds of edits, things can slip through the cracks — editors are no more omniscient than readers. 

When something doesn’t look right, shoot us an email. If you disagree with a take in the Opinions section, write a letter to the editor for publication. If you took a photo and didn’t get credit, we want to pay credit where credit is due. 

Offering feedback or corrections to errors in The Collegian provides a service to campus and to us as journalism students. We can only make our publication better when readers keep us accountable.