Wednesday, May 18, 2005
 
You're Not From Around Here, Are You?
From the Post-Dispatch story entitled UM ends suit with $10m scholarship fund:
    The University of Missouri has agreed to set aside $10 million for a scholarship fund to settle a class action lawsuit that the school violated state law for 15 years by charging tuition to in-state, undergraduate students.
That's the University of Missouri system, right? Check it out:
    Between 1986 when the University's Board of Curators broke a 1939 law by charging educational fees based on credit hours until 2001 when the legislature repealed the 72-year-old statute, Mizzou was breaking the law at its campuses in Columbia, Rolla, St. Louis and Kansas City, Herman alleged and Romines ruled in December 2002. Since then, higher courts upheld the ruling.
Somewhere in that run-on sentence, the author says Mizzou was breaking the law at the four University of Missouri campuses listed. The problem? Mizzou refers specifically to University of Missouri at Columbia. That's a specific nickname that the author applies to all UM campuses.

Word: don't use the hip local lingo if you're unclear on it.


- posted by Brian J. @ 4:45 PM
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