Everybody makes mistakes, including journalists. I've made my share, but nothing quite like this doozy in Indiana University's student newspaper:
Like everyone, we here at the Indiana Daily Student make mistakes from time to time. Unfortunately, because we relied on assumptions, the one we made in Tuesday's paper caused unneeded concern from a number of our readers.
In the page one story Tuesday, “Student catches disease that fewer than 5 contract per year,” we reported that an IU junior contracted diphtheria
