While the oversight has attracted as much, if not more, attention than the students' plea to the legislators to vote against the budget cuts, the spelling errors were not an issue during the protest, said Ben Golding, GSB president-elect. To see it on the front page really took away personally from the people who put a lot of time in it. The repercussions of the national attention directed at the spelling errors may fall on the university as a whole, said some faculty members. Russ Laczniak, associate professor of marketing, said society tends to adopt the views of the media according to what is aired as positive or negative. I think a lot of students have gone out and fought for what they believe in, and unfortunately, what's picked up on is the negative side.
People remember more and are influenced more by negative things.
John McCarroll, director of University Relations, said the mistake was an isolated case that does not reflect on the students' effort. Some people like to play it up and say education is not as good as it should be. McCarroll said the students should be commended, rather than criticized, for their united effort against the proposed budget cuts. Some faculty members said if the national attention to the spelling errors does affect the image of the university, the impact will be temporary. People will poke fun of it, and it will go away.