Adding a field to an sql statement in Oracle Reports error ORA-00933

Question

We have been requested to add a field that already exists in the table referred to by the sql statement in Oracle Reports Builder. The report was set up by a consultant about 3 yrs ago and we don't really have much skill in this area. What is happening when I try to modify the SQL statement, either adding a field or deleting a field to the SELECT statement, causes an error message preventing the statement from being saved. The only way out of the error message is to click Cancel. The error message is
ORA-00933:SQL command not properly ended
ORDER BY Program ==> NAME
Even adding or deleting a space anywhere in the SQL statement causes the error (not adding any new fields). A coworker found that if we comment out the ORDER BY, the statement will accept the new field in the SELECT section, however then we lose the order by functionality. I would like to add one additional field before the FROM. Not sure if any additional data are needed. Thank you.
SELECT p.person_uid PIDM_KEY, p.id_number ID,
               p.full_name_lfmi name,            
                p.BIRTH_DATE, p.GENDER Sex,
                Decode(a.residency,'D',p.Primary_ethnicity,'F')  Ethn,
                a.academic_period TERM,        
                CASE WHEN :p_group_by = 'PROGRAM' THEN a.program
                             ELSE ' '
                END AS Program,
                a.COLLEGE, a.degree, a.major, ' ' rule,
                a.STUDENT_POPULATION,a.STUDENT_LEVEL,    a.application_status Status,  a.application_status_date app_sts_dte,
                ad.decision_date1 Last_Dec_Date,
                ad.decision1||' '||ad.decision2||' '|| ad.decision3||' '|| ad.decision4||' '|| ad.decision5 Decisions,
                /*  Deposit Date uses the last term entered in :p_term parameter string */
                (SELECT MAX(deposit_effective_date) FROM usf_as_deposit WHERE account_uid = a.person_uid &term_clause group by account_uid)   AS "DEPOSIT DATE",     
                ph.phone as PHONE,
                CASE WHEN PS.FIRST_CONTACT IN ('NET','PAP','COM','COP') THEN PS.First_Contact
                 ELSE CASE WHEN ps.latest_contact IN ('NET','PAP','COM','COP') THEN PS.Latest_Contact
                            ELSE '  '
                            END
                END AS FIRST_CONTACT,
                DECODE(:p_address,'Y',REPLACE(adr.street1||' '||adr.street2||' '||adr.street3||' '||adr.city||','||adr.state||' '||adr.nation||' '||adr.zip,'  ',' '),' ') as  address, adr.nation, adr.state,
                goremal_email_address email, a.residency, a.application_date, p.primary_ethnicity, c.cohort
FROM MST_ADMISSIONS_APPLICATION A,
           MST_PERSON p,mst_pre_student PS,  Admissions_Cohort c, usf_v_phone_pr_ma ph,
           MST_admissions_decision_slot AD, usf_v_email, usf_v_address_dr_lr_ma_pr adr
WHERE a.PERSON_UID = p.person_uid
        AND a.curriculum_priority  = 1
        AND a.person_uid = ps.person_uid
       AND a.person_uid = ad.person_Uid(+)
       AND a.person_uid = goremal_pidm(+)
       AND a.person_uid = adr.pidm(+)
       AND a.person_uid = ph.pidm(+)
       AND ph.rnum(+) = 1
       AND a.person_uid = c.person_uid(+)
       AND a.academic_period = c.academic_period(+)
  &Where_Clause
       /*    TAKE OUT FOLLOWING LINE AFTER DATA IS CLEANED UP  */
        AND NOT(p.id_number = '00000000'   OR SUBSTR(p.id_number,1,1) = 'B'  OR UPPER(p.full_name_lfmi)  LIKE '%TESTING%')
       AND  a.application_status_date >= NVL(:p_as_of_date,sysdate-8000)
       AND a.academic_period = ad.academic_period(+)
        AND a.application_number = ad.application_number(+)
        AND a.degree <> 'ND'    /*   AND a.college <> 'LW'                         --  Does not need non-degree and law students    */
       &Cohort_Clause 
ORDER BY Program  &ORDER_CLAUSE

Answer 1

Hi Denis,
I tried your suggestion. The good thing is that adding the comma allowed me to be able to add a.campus to the select statement, unfortunately, another error message happened.
ORA-00936: missing expression SELECT p . person_uid PIDM_KEY ,
p . id_number , p . full_name_lfmi name , p . BIRTH_DATE , p . GENDER Sex ,
Decode ( a . residency , 'D' , p . Primary_Ethnicity , 'F' ) Ethn , a . academic_period TERM ,
CASE WHEN : P_group_by = 'PROGRAM THEN a I started over and tried only putting in the comma and get the same message even though I didn't add campus. After that, removed the comma which led to the ORA-00933 error message. So once again, I had to close the file without saving, in order for the report to run at all.