Oh, you doubt?
Posted on 12/13/2015 9:43:59 AM PST by PROCON
In a day and age when the campus foolishness quotient never seems to stop increasing (after all, do away with a building named "Lynch" because of the "racial" overtones?), it is time to take a look at a few college-related terms and titles which may shortly be on the chopping block.
Obviously, a replacement must be sought for master's degree. (Skeptical? Hah!)
A bachelor's degree is overtly and blatantly sexist. What about unmarried females, after all, don't they count? Suitable replacement Unattached (insert preferred pronoun) degree.
"Associate degree" - the first three letters could be viewed as denigrating the achievement.
The title "provost" is problematic because it is biased against amateur vosts. Same with "professor" - what about apprentice fessors?
"Dean's List" could be kept for male students (and/or those who identify as male), but there should be an alternative for females (and those who identify as female). Perhaps it could be dubbed a "Diane's List."
Any college that currently has a moose for a mascot (like Maine-Augusta, and what Amherst wants in place of its current symbol) should reconsider. After all, merely change the first letter to the very next letter in the alphabet and you have, ahem, yet another racially offensive term. (You're guffawing? Remember this incident?)
"Greek system" (fraternities, sororities) must go. Way too Eurocentric.
"Minor" is offensive because it implies something is "not as worthy" of study. For instance, if someone is majoring in, say, Spanish, but another student is minoring in it, the latter’s implicit message is that the former's degree isn't as deserving.
"Adjunct" - the second syllable sounds too much like "junk." Disparaging to part-time professors.
"Endowed" and "endowment" - the connotation to large bosom and male girth is alarming.
The title "Fellow" is undoubtedly sexist. Females (and those who identify as such) should have the option of using the term "Lass."
The first part of the word "tenure" - "ten" - is colloquially utilized to indicate physical perfection. Since most people aren't even close to being a "10," the term might be rather disconcerting to students and faculty.
Although the term "lector" is heard almost exclusively in Europe (Yale being an American exception), the title evokes images of the cannibalistic Hannibal Lecter. Major microaggression, that. (Wait, is that an oxymoron?)
The humanities may been seen as engaging in speciesism … as some students and faculty may identify with a species of organism other than human.
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Has the low information voter figure it out yet that civilization is in a death spiral?
Campus democrats should be banned. Until they ban the party of slavery and Jim Crow, they aren’t serious.
Don’t fret over this. If Bernie is elected, all college will be free and everyone will have a Doctorate, but we’ll just call it a “diploma” because it will be the equivalent of a high school diploma c.1960.
Apparently they still believe that the unicorns will indeed shtt skittles, come the the day after tomorrow.
Personally, I'd rename it because it shares the name of Ebola's current idiot AG, who thinks that saying bad things about Moslems is illegal. [eyeroll]
Oh, you doubt?
Uh, "Dean" is the name of a person's POSITION in the school, not a male surname. Is this article satire? I better check and make sure it's not from John Semmons. That guy has raised my BP a few times before I realized it was [sort of] satire.
GMAFB!
I hate to say it, but this generation of spoiled, affected little brats needs a depression and war to make adults out of them.
Er, male GIVEN name I meant to say. Erps.
'Dean' must be thrown on the scrap heap of history and burned along with all of the other christo- and porko-normative terms.
Porkonormative — ROFLMAO! That one’s definitely going in the lexicon.
The term “Education” will be the next to go.
I doubt it.
As long as the cash flow is uninterrupted, they'll think we're heading for a socialist utopia.
That is, until they discover what Margaret Thatcher was talking about when she said, “The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
No complained about bachelors degrees yet.
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