It doesn’t take a discerning eye to catch some of this week’s embarrassing front-page spelling mishaps in the OU Daily. From Monday’s emphatic headline “Artic Blast Invades Norman” to Wednesday’s front-page teaser “Women’s basketball faces Texas in the Red River Ribalry tonight in Norman”, the OU Daily has set a new gold standard for blatant disregard of spell-check.

Even as I write this, the red saw tooth lines underneath those non-existent words are driving me nuts; I’m not sure how they could possibly slip by presumably multiple sets of eyes at the Daily. Copyediting is a tough job for sure, and doing it as a student just for experience, while balancing academics, surely increases the chance that errors deep within the pages could make their way to press (for example, a misspelling of ‘approximately’ in the lower box on page 4A of Wednesday’s edition). But, errors in headlines occurring in the most visible sections of the paper overwhelmingly undermine the newspaper’s credibility and already poor reputation.

Hopefully something can quickly be done to remediate this increasingly lax behavior at OU’s Independent Student Voice.

-Ryan Sobash

Graduate Student, Meteorology