INDIANA DAILY STUDENT Stylebook addendum for spring 2019 Indiana Daily Student | idsnews.com | Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 7 Bob Knight never Bobby unless in a For those with a location name in direct quote their proper titles, use it: University of NEWS California at Los Angeles, University ANALYSIS capitalization UNIVERSITY: Lowercase of Texas at Arlington. Usually there’s IU employees gave over university as a reference to IU. See also no need for this when referring to $175,000 to political campaigns plurals. a university’s main campus, unless A look into political contributions by IU employees indicates that faculty and staff in the more than one is mentioned or the College of Arts and Sciences gave the most, followed by the Maurer School of Law. CRABB Band Part of the IU Marching By Jesse Naranjo and Matt Rasnic college system has more than one main [email protected] | [email protected] Hundred that plays at soccer games. campus. Well-known abbreviations, Government OfficialsReverted back to $20,328 including UCLA, UNLV, USC, UTEP previous IDS style. Maurer School of Law and LSU, are acceptable on second See government officials. and subsequent references. Never use abbreviations that readers would not $76,595 IU Foundation on first reference. The $19,822 easily recognize. College of Arts and Sciences foundation on second reference. Misc. staff Spell out State as part of a proper name, such as Michigan State. LGBTQ Use LGBTQ as per AP style. $12,042 For sports, all schools outside Use neither form as a noun. Jacobs School the BIG Ten conference need to be of Music LGBTQ also includes queer $10,036 identified by their full name on first $9,560 and/or questioning. SICE reference. Kelley School On first reference for the IU office, of Business For IU colleges and schools, see use LGBTQ+ Culture Center. The office schools. mployees of IU have contrib- tecture and Design. uted more than $175,000 to Other departments within the col- School of Medicine - $7,034 political campaigns and re- lege include Chemistry, Biology, His- serves students who identify as LGBTQ. lated committees since the tory and Political Science. Ebeginning of 2017, according to an Maurer School of Law faculty and analysis of campaign filing data col- staff contributed another $20,328. lected from the Federal Election Com- The individual who contributed the School of Education - $6,112 On second reference, use mission. most money was a College of Arts and The Indiana Daily Student used Sciences faculty member who gave publicly available filing information $5,910 in total. The lowest contribution from entities whose contributors re- total reported was $1. ported the University as their employer ActBlue, a nonprofit technology School of Public and the center or LGBTQ+ office. when making contributions. company that helps Democratic can- Recipients of such contributions, didates and progressive groups fun- like political action and candidate draise, received more contributions Environmental Affairs - $5,706 committees, do not have to report this than any other entity. information to the Federal Elections Contributions to ActBlue can be LGBTQIA only when in the name Commission if the donor gave less than earmarked for a specific candidate’s $200 in total to the entity. committee, though IU employees also Contributors with at least one donated directly to the campaign com- Administration - $4,385 Bloomington address were cross-refer- mittees of incumbent Sen. Joe Don- This includes vice presidents and the provost. enced with faculty, staff and adminis- nelly, D-Indiana, and Liz Watson, the of an organization with the I and A tration listings. Democratic candidate for Indiana’s 9th Individuals whose position could House District. not be independently verified were The top 22 receiving entities were omitted and those who could not be associated with Democratic causes. School of Public Health - $1,679 categorized under a specific school ActBlue reported a record haul in explained. I generally stands for intersex were listed as “miscellaneous.” the third quarter of 2018, attracting The contribution totals include $7,782,934 in contributions between money donated during primary and July and September, compared to School of Optometry - $1,125 special elections since the election $3,342,271 during the same period in and A generally stands for asexual (a cycle began. 2016 and $2,304,231 during the same Almost 44 percent, or about period in 2014. $76,595, of contributions came from More information about political faculty and staff in the College of Arts contributions can be found on the Fed- School of Social Work - $347.50 and Sciences. eral Election Commission’s website, person who doesn’t experience sexual The College of Arts and Sciences FEC.gov. includes the Media School, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and Interna- Jacob DeCastro contributed to this tional Studies and School of Art, Archi- analysis. School of Nursing - $239.00 attraction), ally or both. Oct. 29, 2018 See gay, non-binary, sexual orientation, straight and transgender. Hillel Helene G. Simon Hillel Center on first reference. Use Hillel on second reference. pro-choice, pro-life Use anti-abortion or abortion rights as per AP style. See abortion, anti-abortion, pro-choice, pro-life. schools Uppercase the proper names of the school — Media School, Jacobs School of Music, Kelley School of Business. Lowercase a second reference that inverts the name — music school, business school. See individual listings of the schools for more style information. University Lowercase when referring to IU and as part of a formal name. See capitalization, Indiana University. universities, colleges Some institutions of higher education are colleges. Others are universities. Check appropriate references to be certain. Addendum to the Indiana Daily Student Style Guide Dec. 20. 2018 IDS INDIANA DAILY STUDENT STYLEBOOK idsnews.com/stylebook January 2019 Which reference when? (1) The current IDS Stylebook. Check for updated information in the newsroom. (2) The current Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual. (3) The usage guide supplementing this stylebook. (4) A trustworthy dictionary, such as dictionary.com. Trumping them all? Your editor-in-chief. Last updated by Matt Rasnic Spring 2019 PB INDIANA DAILY STUDENT STYLE GUIDE January 2019 January 2019 INDIANA DAILY STUDENT STYLE GUIDE 3 a, an The articlea is used before Do not use periods in any consonant sounds, including history abbreviation more than two letters or any derivation of it: a busy long: USA, not U.S.A. intersection, a rival team, Do not include the abbreviation A a historic event. in parentheses or set off by dashes Use an before vowel sounds and after spelling out the name of the Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018 | Indiana Daily Student | idsnews.com a silent h: an enormous appetite, organization. If the abbreviation is an attack cat, an honorable man. not clear on second reference without being put in parentheses, it is too Oct. 27 IDS Oct. 28 9:54 a.m. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: A A boy, 17, and a man, 20, are injured after 12:30 a.m. in Monroe County, Indiana: man enters Tree of Life synagogue alleg- being shot in a parked car. | 11 p.m. in Pa- Kemontie Johnson, 21, is shot in the neck a cappella Two words, lowercase. confusing for the average reader. edly armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic terson, New Jersey: A 28-year-old man with and body eight times at an off-campus fra- rifle and three Glock .357 handguns, kill- gunshot wounds arrives alone at a hospital ternity party and later dies. Another person ing 11 people and injur- is shot in the arm and a If one of these abbreviations is ing six others. | 10 a.m. third man, shot in the in Salt Lake City, Utah: head, is left in critical A residential shooting condition. | 12:30 a.m. a lot Never as the single word a lot, leaves 40-year-old man in San Antonio, Texas: used in a lead, it must be identified in critical condition. | Two juveniles are shot 10:02 a.m. in Chicago, 24 hours in the legs at a party. | and better replaced with a synonym, Illinois: A man, 23, is 12:30 a.m. in Houston, on its second reference. Some other shot in his upper left leg Texas: A man is found in the South Side Engle- after being shot in the such as many or much. wood neighborhood. | leg. | 1 a.m. in Geneva, abbreviations — such as CIA, MTV, 12:44 p.m. in Birming- of shootings New York: A 39-year-old ham, Alabama: Korey man is found with sev- Carlisle, 27, is found shot eral gunshot wounds to DDT and FBI — are acceptable in all dead at the bottom of the lower body. | 1 a.m. a staircase. | 1 p.m. in in South Bend, Indi- abbreviations, acronyms An North Clarendon, Ver- ana: A 19-year-old man references. Check the AP Stylebook. mont: A man dies after in America is found with a gun- shooting himself in the shot wound to his leg. abbreviation is not an acronym. An Rutland-Southern Ver- | 1:18 a.m. in Cedar A few universally recognized mont Regional Airport Grove, North Carolina: parking lot. | 1:15 p.m. Oct. 27, 9:54 a.m. An 18-year-old woman acronym forms from the first letter or Killeen, Texas: A woman is shot in the head at a abbreviations, such as Co., etc. and i.e., is injured in a house by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Halloween party. She a gunshot after some- A man enters Tree of Life synagogue armed with an later dies at a hospital. letters of a series of words: laser (light one shot at the floor and | 1:30 a.m.