Egregious Errors and Social-Media Slips

Administrators at the University of Texas (as well as parents, students, and faculty, we assume) were horrified last weekend to find the following misspelling in the commencement program for the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. We can surely let the image speak for itself:

The LBJ school, in its apology letter to graduates, notes that the error originated with the printers, and promised to mail new, wholesome copies. The school also made apologies over Twitter, though that may not have aided their cause, as the Tweet was also misspelled:

Xarissa Holdaway

Then again, we at The Chronicle can’t sit on too high a horse. It shames us to admit that we once sent out a tweet beginning with the abbreviation for University of North Texas (UNT), which is innocuous on its own, but when presented after the large ‘C’ that makes up our logo, makes for a decidedly unfortunate sentence.

Both of the Tweets in question have been corrected, and quickly too. If only print were so easy.

H/T to Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune for the original image.