It should have been "public" -- not "pubic."The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs humiliated itself -- twice -- with embarrassing typos connected with last Saturday's graduation ceremonies at the University of Texas in Austin. First, there were those handsome programs -- distributed to hundreds of parents and students at Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium. On the front covers, the school called itself: "Lyndon B. Johnson School of Pubic Affairs." And when horrified university officials realized what they'd done, they sent out this tweet: The LBJ School@TheLBJSchoolOur deepest apologies to our 2012 graduates forthe eggregious typo in our program. We areworking to distribute corrected programs. Obviously, it's "egregious" -- one "g," not two.Jim Romenesko, in his venerable blog covering "media and other things," explained how school officials immediately went into damage-control mode: Susan Binford, assistant dean for communications at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, says the "pubic" typo was spotted after the programs were distributed at Saturday's commencement exercises."Obviously, we are mortified. It's beyond embarrassing." The program....
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