Parthenon error

Two articles featured on the front page of Wednesday’s Parthenon contain multiple errors.  Both articles were about Marshall’s basketball teams and their upcoming game against rival WVU.

The first egregious error that I uncovered was a factual one. In the story about Marshall’s women’s team the student writer said the opposing team had four losses when, in fact, they had only one.  Journalists should always check facts for accuracy.

A grammatical error found in both stories was the use of "their" instead of "its" when referring to the Herd. 

The third error discovered was the use of a time element at the beginning of the story about the men’s basketball game. The article begins with the word, “tonight.” A news story should never begin with a time element, unless the time element is the most important part of the story.