Elections for Student Senate Executive Officers are coming up, and as individuals try to one-up each other through posts to their Facebook groups and careful poster placement, one individual was less than meticulous with his grammar.This individual writes, "I want to set a president in dolling out that money, if groups.." A colon or new sentence should follow the word "money," but the more glaring error is the incorrect use of the word "president" for "precedent" - two words that sound similar, but mean entirely different things. Since this candidate is running for Student Body President, perhaps his thoughts were turned to the glory of the title as he wrote his platform.
(Other minor errors in this paragraph: "junior" should be plural, "benefits" should be substituted for the passive "is benefiting.")
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