In today's UT, columnist Logan Jenkins wrote about 10 local occurrences of 2010 that might not be forgotten. Number 6 is about how Don McKinney, a MiraCosta College board candidate, bungled his statement for voters by misspelling the name of the college as "Miracosta Collage."
Several commencements ago, the same misspelling appeared on the cover of Palomar's program booklet. Today, if you walk up to a counter in a Palomar office that welcomes new students, you may find the same spelling error on a well-intentioned business-sized card designed to remind them of the student eServices on one side and to hand write their new Palomar-issued ID number on the other. Makes you wonder who gave the final approval on these important print jobs.
Or shall we not compete with the reality of this impossible spelling? McKinney, incidentally, petitioned a judge to allow him to correct his embarrassing errors on the grounds of the "false and misleading information" that the abused word amounts to.
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