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Old 09-10-2004, 03:18 PM
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Re: Re: Is it better to be [Greek] on or off campus?

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Originally posted by exlurker
Wow. The story would have benefitted from editing before publication. I have no problem with a minor typo or two, but this story needs help.

"Sigma Chi house verses the Sigma Pi" -- "versus"

"there freshmen year dorm experience" -- their" and "freshman"

"your closets friends" -- "closest"

"makes there house easy" -- "their"

"On the quality of their other hand, the location of their fraternity houses does not effect the brotherhood." -- "affect," not "effect," and "quality of their" should be moved immediately before "brotherhood."

A couple of unidiomatic usages could be revised:

"in proximity with" -- "in proximity to"

"Sigma Chi house is also neighboring to the William T. Young Library" -- probably " . . . is also near the William . . .," unless "neighboring to" is a well-known Kentucky regionalism.

Cliches don't make it any better, either:

"preconceived notion"

"positive factor"
Glad to see I'm not the only one who picked up on that...
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