It has been brought to the attention of the Managing Editor and Co-Chairs of the Editorial Board that the erratum, “Setting the Record Straight,” made unwarranted claims. Among them was that the Pulse does not have a faculty-wide election for Keepers of the Pulse. We have since learned that the Pulse holds faculty-wide elections, including emeritus faculty. In our experience, the term “faculty” is used in different ways given the many kinds of instructors and researchers at MIT. But we should not have said what we did and apologize for the confusion.

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