March 24, 2000

Penn State's Student Newspaper Fires an Editor for Fabricating a Quote

Oops.

Editors at The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper at Pennsylvania State University's main campus, will probably be proofreading their pages more carefully after one of their own made up a vulgar quotation and attributed it to the women's basketball coach this month.

The fake quote -- highlighted by a banner that read "Quote of the Week" -- appeared at the end of an article about a press conference held by the coach, Rene Portland. "That's the

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