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February 19, 1999
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Volume 6, Number 11 |
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About OCNCover
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MISCELLANYRestaurateur honors MacKinnon with gift for fine arts
Employee Assistance ProgramIf family crises, adult relationship problems, or problems with children have become overwhelming for you, consider contacting the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for confidential, cost-free counselling. Phone 966-4300 to set up a consultation meeting with a professional. EAP, located in 1018 Education, accepts self-referrals from all campus employees.
Getting our prioritizes rightSome time ago, someone pointed out to us that our use of the word priorize was incorrect - that it should be prioritize.The Random House Webster College Dictionary concurs: it has no entry for priorize and defines prioritize as follows:
So, duly corrected, we have since been careful not to use priorize. Recently, however, Doug MacLean, of Mathematics and Statistics, phoned to take issue with our use of the word prioritize in the January 8/99 OCN in the following sentence: "Respectfully reminding the government that $1 million spent on the operating grant to the University generates a $4.25-million return to the province's economy while noting that the U of S "has lost substantial ground over the past 10 years," the 37-page Operations Forecast prioritizes the University's complex of needs and aspirations into three 'tiers.'" MacLean referred to an entry in Fowler's Modern English Usage (1996 edition) in which the current editor, R.W. Burchfield, offers the following: "prioritize. 'A word that at present sits uneasily in the language', I commented in vol. iii of OEDS (1982). The comment remains valid except that I could have indicated that the word has remained locked in the jargon of business managers, politicians, and other officials, i.e., among people who sometimes like to dress up their documents and speeches with high-sounding words. The word has not been found in print before 1968." So there you are: priorize is not in the dictionary and prioritize is for scuzzy politicians and business managers. Next time we'll reverbicize.
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Editor's Note- Readers are reminded that the next issue of On Campus News is not two but three weeks away, thus reflecting the February 22-26 mid-term break. The publishing date, then, is Friday, March 12, with the copy deadline falling on Friday, March 5.- As always, we invite you to consider writing an opinion piece on any university-related topic. We also welcome letters to the editor, either in response to something in OCN or simply on a matter you wish to speak out about. For more information, contact Wayne Eyre, editor, at -6610 or at Wayne.Eyre@usask.ca
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Next issue of On Campus News: Friday, March 12
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