Vanity Fair, IBT Fall for Emma Watson Goof

Post-graduate plans are nothing more than a strand of The Daily Pennsylvanian's latest April Fool's issue.

Problem #1: University of Pennsylvania student newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian has, for decades now, chosen to release its annual April Fool’s issue way before April 1. So from that straight-up calendar end, there’s no way for folks to be aware that it’s one big annual joke.

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Problem #2: On Twitter (and in the unwitting Vanity Fair pick-up), blogger Joanna Robinson uses the term “Updated” when it really should be “Corrected.” Updated would apply if, say, a rep for the school or Watson had confirmed further details of her post-Brown Penn plans.

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