Cal State Chico — An article in Tuesday's California section about hazing at Cal State Chico mistakenly said that a pledge to a fraternity at nearby Butte Community College died of alcohol poisoning. He did not die but was hospitalized. The article also said Chico has a population of 35,000; according to the city, the population is 71,317. In addition, University President Paul Zingg was quoted saying the school would shut down its Greek system if problems with hazing did not abate. Zingg made his comments to a group of 850 students and others, and his remarks were quoted in the local media. He did not speak with The Times. Also, although the article characterized the school as being well-known for its basketball program, its winning baseball program may be best known outside campus.

An article last Sunday about the popularity of hedge funds misstated the revenue of a hypothetical hedge fund company that has $100 million in assets and produces a one-year return of 10 percent. If the fund's fees entitled it to 1 percent of assets under management and 20 percent of any profit, its revenue would be $3 million, not $11 million.

Heard this one on NPR.



Makes you wonder if they even spell Los Angeles in their name correctly.

By the way, we discussed a story about hazing at Chico here. Or it might even be the same incident.

Its too bad. I'm glad the guy didn't die, but hazing and excessive university drinking is a big problem. The misreporting on articles like this shift the focus away from the actual problem, and make it about the reporting. The original sucked, but being hospitalized for excessive drinking isn't exactly a beauty either. I still think this is something universities should take seriously. I held way too many heads over toilets in college to say that if the news covers it wrong, it must not be an issue.


Frankly, there should be more dance parties, that would help a ton

Dolce, as I pointed out in my original post, we here at KJ DID discuss the incident (or at least something that was very close to it)./

Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with you. What, you've been hittin the bottle that early on a sunday hmmm? :wink:

I was just saying, it seems that not just in this case, but every case where reporting like this has happened, people seem to forget the topic at hand. In this case, college frats and drinking. now where'd my beer go?

They need to take a cue from the right wing media like Fox News and simply never bother to correct, clarify, or apologize for anything ever.

Don't you get the impression they really wanted to add "And yes we fired the idiot new reporter." They said everything but that.

I just don't get it. If you hate Fox News so much, why do you watch it?

I just don't get it. If you hate Fox News so much, why do you watch it?

I note that is not a defense of Fox News' policy of never apologizing for its mistakes.

Oh, that's right. I forgot who started this thread. You should have made it clear at the beginning that criticism of the media is okay as long as we don't criticize the right-wing media. Or was that implied?

I note that is not a defense of Fox News' policy of never apologizing for its mistakes.