We don't always get the story right.
While we strive for accuracy in all stages of our reporting, we sometimes misreport - as all newspapers do.
When we do make mistakes, we run corrections or clarifications. We are willing to admit when we are wrong.
In Tuesday's issue, we reported that President Jo Ann Gora said starting a new provost search process is not even an option.
On Wednesday, Gora e-mailed a President's Perspective to a select group of people - generally, faculty and staff - in order to clarify her position. In the e-mail, she indicated that the Daily News misreported her position.
We can admit when we're wrong.
In this case, we were not wrong.
On the following page, we have printed the full text of Gora's e-mail along with a transcript of the conversation our reporter had with Gora.
We want you to be informed enough to make up your own mind about her comments. We support independent thinking - even our staff is not in unanimous agreement regarding the decision to print these documents.
However, there is a more important issue at hand.
Students, by and large, were not included in Gora's e-mail. In sending the President's Perspective to primarily an audience of faculty and staff, she left out the largest segment of this university community.
While the act of sending a President's Perspective on the issue shows she thought the clarification was important, the fact that she did not send the e-mail to students indicates that clarifying her position to the student body was not a primary concern.
Sending a President's Perspective e-mail to students and all of Ball State is not unprecedented, but Gora chose to leave students out of the conversation.
Furthermore, at no point after we printed the story did she attempt to contact the Daily News requesting a clarification be printed. She did not clear up her position with the student body - which should've been her first concern. In fact, we had to contact her Wednesday night for any kind of dialogue with students to begin.
In the end, you have every right to determine your own opinions of the situation - we won't tell you what to think. Read the documents and decide for yourself.
We will, however, present all the information we have as accurately as possible.
And that's what a newspaper - student or otherwise - should do.
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