CURRENTLY BEING EDITED/REVISED
Da Rules. These are just a few guidelines to help keep everything consistent. Please try to follow them in your submissions, but it's not like we won't run your article if it's funny and misuses a semi-colon. That is, after all, why the editor gets paid more than you do. Anyway, here you go.
- When referring to The B&S, do it just like that. Capitalized and italized, including the "The." When referring to the S&B, do it like that. If that seems kind of arbitrary, well, it is. But that's how we like it and that's how the S&B likes it.
- Don't use people's real names unless they're a public figure. Public figures include President Bush, President Osgood, and Steven Briscoe. Non-public figures include your roommate, your history professor, and that kid in your history class. (Unless, of course, your roommate happens to be President Osgood.) That doesn't mean that you can't write about these people; it just means you can't use their real name, and they can't be immediately recognizable. Hate your history prof? Change his or her gender, stick him/her in a biology class, complete with trendy new name, and write away.
- Make sure to assign a class year to your fake students, i.e. John Doe '05. Why? Because the S&B does it. Because it looks nice. Because it adds an air of authenticity to your fake article. Because that's just how we do it, dammit. (The exception is if you mention their year earlier in the sentence, i.e. "First-year student John Doe" is fine, you wouldn't need to do "first-year student John Doe '08." That would be silly.)
- If your article takes place in a specific place (for example, Quad or Washington, DC), please start your article with a dateline indicating such. Do this in sentence case, followed by a dash (two hyphens equals one dash). I.e. Quad-- Something happened. If your article does not take place in one specific location, don't worry about a dateline.
- Please spell-check your article before you send it in.
- Please do not misuse apostrophes in your article. I fucking hate misused apostrophes. If you do not know how to properly use an apostrophe, check out Bob the Angry Flower. If you read that and still do not how to use an apostrophe, feel free to email me personally at [sanckenr] and I will be happy to expound upon the ever-slighted apostrophe at great length.
- Please send your articles as attached Word Documents to [fakepapr].
- That's it for now, but more rules might be added later. Seriously. Any minute now, I could be thinking of sneaky new rules.
