I revealed 4 problems with a Greek life newspaper on the College of Maryland referred to as The Greek Occasions, and I bought a nastygram from a lawyer about content material within the third problem.
It was an recommendation column that induced the difficulty. One of many workers members, Kendra, would reply questions submitted to the newspaper. They have been normally submitted by me and a few my pals.
However she mentioned she acquired one on to reply within the third problem, so I printed it verbatim.
The issue was that she included the cellphone variety of somebody she had a beef with, and that particular person contacted a lawyer after the Greek Occasions problem got here out.
I used to be doing my typical routines, going to class, stopping by the IFC workplace, and many others., and noticed that there was a chunk of mail for me. And never the enjoyable type of mail.
Uh oh, this was how I discovered I had unknowingly printed one other particular person’s cellphone quantity within the newspaper, and he or she apparently acquired harassing cellphone calls due to it.
So, I referred to as Kendra up and let her know that her most up-to-date recommendation column was the final one. And I despatched a letter again to the lawyer to apologize.
Fortuitously, that’s so far as it went. The subsequent and remaining problem of the Greek Occasions featured a brand new recommendation columnist, my fraternity brother, Aaron Falcione (aka Ernst).
This one didn’t get me in any hassle, in order that was good. I actually loved placing out the newspaper, and it was useful in my improvement and real-world expertise with budgets, deadlines, workers administration, and coping with a lawyer.