IronMan
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10 years ago
I'm not making this up. Every time I read some stupid shit liberals come up with, I think... this has to be sattire. Nope. it's true.  




Elon University in North Carolina banned the word “freshman” from its website and student orientation, claiming
it’s sexist and suggests that the young women might make good rape victims.

It’s replacing the term with “first-year.”

“The term has often been felt to refer to the vulnerableness of young women in college for the first time,” Leigh-Anne Royster, the school’s “Inclusive Community Wellbeing Director” told the College Fix.

“Given the rates of sexual violence perpetrated against women on college campuses, it is useful to examine any
use of a term that suggests that a group of people just entering college might be targets for such violence in any
way,” she added.

Zero2Cool
10 years ago
You have my interest until you start throwing labels out, then I kind of gloss over and go 'great more political BS' and it shuns me off the actual topic. BTW, I really have to piss right now, but I have three things I need to do first and I forgot the first four things. Wait. What?
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IronMan
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10 years ago
Throwing labels out? Liberals are the ones coming up with this stupid shit. If you don't like the word just ban it from the website.
Zero2Cool
10 years ago

Throwing labels out? Liberals are the ones coming up with this stupid shit. If you don't like the word just ban it from the website.

Originally Posted by: IronMan 



When I see right winger left winger conservative liberal etc ... it turns me off, that's all. It's not the word, its the usage of it. When those labels are used, there is a strong preconceived connotation.


As for the title, this is just more exaggeration measures of "look what we are doing to protect your kids", at least, that's what I think.
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Wade
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10 years ago
Old news on campus, actually.

Some of us fuddy-duddy types sometimes forget (and get gently chided), but mostly "first year student" has become the standard usage in higher ed. Here at PC College, we even use FY as our abbreviation.

I've never heard the "promote rape" argument before, but that could just be because I now tend to tune out as a waste of my time the reasons given for all these institutional sillinesses. Otherwise I'd go completely (or more completely, I suppose some would say) bonkers.

I mean, ours is a school that requires each of us to fill out a special "carbon footprint" form whenever we want to get reimbursed for travel expenses, and whose physical look is now defined by a giant phallus (er, wind turbine) on the hill above it and an ever growing number of mirror farms (er, solar panels). We've been doing the "Vagina Monologues" for years now every February, and this fall we had a production of the "Vibrator Play."
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wpr
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10 years ago
No one is going to say they will not attack someone because they are FY. If only she had been a freshman, oh boy that would have been a different story. Foiled by labeling.

Ever single college that I am aware of drums the "Be Aware of Your Surroundings" theme into every student be they incoming students or existing students as far back as the 70's when I was in school. They cut down trees to provide more visibility to sidewalks. Installed more lights. Put in more emergency call boxes and a lot of other things including more patrols and encouraging students to walk was groups. I can't see how calling a student one name or another will help but if it does- great.
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Pack93z
10 years ago
Maybe I am too freaking old.. but how the hell do you get promoting rape from the word freshmen? Gender bias.. you can at least get the association..

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Gilligan
10 years ago

I'm not making this up. Every time I read some stupid shit liberals come up with, I think... this has to be sattire. Nope. it's true.

Originally Posted by: IronMan 



Typical kneejerk reaction..."The National Review" is not exactly a credible source. Try this one Ironman.

Elon University has not banned the word freshman 

Elon University has not banned the word “freshman,” and there is no university policy against using the word, according to Vice-President of University Communications Dan Anderson.

Elon has been in the spotlight with some national media attention after junior Diana Stancy wrote an article for The College Fix, a conservative-leaning website by students for students. The National Review Online picked up Stancy’s article and used the word “banned” in their headline, in relation to the word “freshman.” Fox News then used similar language during Fox and Friends Thursday morning, saying that Elon University had banned the term from being used.



Imagine that, The National Review and Fox News got it wrong, what are the odds of that?🙄
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texaspackerbacker
10 years ago

You have my interest until you start throwing labels out, then I kind of gloss over and go 'great more political BS' and it shuns me off the actual topic. BTW, I really have to piss right now, but I have three things I need to do first and I forgot the first four things. Wait. What?

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 



And what exactly would YOU call that crowd who are obsessed with political correctness that they pull crap like this?

They oughta call half the new students "freshmen" - and the other half "freshwomen" as in "we need some fresh women around here, the old ones are getting stale".
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