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Susquehanna U drops Crusaders nickname
Campus Reform ^ | 11/05/15 | Brianna Buczkowski

Posted on 04/03/2016 7:51:00 AM PDT by Buttons12

Following a vote from the Board of Trustees, Susquehanna University is the latest institution whose mascot, the Crusaders, must go due to concern over potential offensiveness and negative connotations.

Citing "growing concern and sensitivity" to ensure sure the campus remains "welcoming and inclusive..."

...Last spring, the Susquehanna University student government ran a poll among the student body with a squirrel winning by over 50 percent of the votes.

"I don’t know if squirrels are exactly that presence that we needed," said Junior Paris Campbell to the student newspaper, also titled The Crusader.

Despite the petition and seemingly apathetic student body, the Board and President Lemons stand firm in the need to change the nickname and mascot to something that doesn’t potentially conjure connotations that would offend someone.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


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KEYWORDS: crusaders; mascot; pc; purge; rop
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To: Fresh Wind

Since they reject a name that they should associate with a moral conquest, than they deserve one that relates to surrender, defeat, and other labels that a victor would apply to the conquered, so I propose one of these:

The Victims
The Infidels
The Prisoners
The Slaves
The Outcasts
The Subjects
The Losers


21 posted on 04/03/2016 9:16:34 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: Buttons12

My sister and two of my children graduated from SU.... I used to be a professor at SU. I know it well.. Excellent University...

Should have picked the nutty squirrels as a mascot!!! They are everywhere.

SU is mainly NJ students.... (No correlation to my mascot preference)


22 posted on 04/03/2016 9:20:03 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Buttons12
So sad how America has changed, this would never have seen the light of day now......and may never again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk79UGcCDVc

23 posted on 04/03/2016 9:38:53 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Buttons12
Fighting words! Seriously, you want to make a coed openly hostile, "snowflake" does it every time.

Gosh, I'm so sorry for my offense, but you should know better than to use an offensive sexist term like "coed".

I realize now that "Snowflake" should only be used to refer to what used to be known as "fairies". What they are called now I am unsure, so I checked this reference, and now I'm even more confused than ever, but I think the correct term would be "non-heteronormative male".

24 posted on 04/03/2016 9:41:44 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: tenthirteen

In your praise for L-M-T, just don’t scrawl the name LAZ in chalk anywhere I can see it. The snowflake in me will be offended.


25 posted on 04/03/2016 10:10:51 AM PDT by Exit148 ((Loose Chnge Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: Fresh Wind
offensive sexist term like "coed"

This is inner Pennsylvania. We call the court clerk "the prothonotary." I've performed in reenactments using my own clothes.

26 posted on 04/03/2016 10:26:38 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
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To: Buttons12

They are now the “Dhimmis”.


27 posted on 04/03/2016 10:27:12 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: tired&retired
My sister and two of my children graduated from SU.... I used to be a professor at SU. I know it well.. Excellent University...

Well then I'm obliged to say something nice. They do drink a lot less alcohol than the students at Bucknell.

28 posted on 04/03/2016 10:30:35 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
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To: Buttons12
I’m not sure what attracts them to middle of nowhere

Conquest.

29 posted on 04/03/2016 10:31:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Buttons12

More dhimmis born every day ...


30 posted on 04/03/2016 11:01:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Buttons12

LOL...Yes.. especially on band weekend... My wife and brother in law went to Bucknell.

I actually have a home on the edge of Bucknell next to the Christy Mathewson Stadium. Know both campuses well...

I migrated south though and have a second home midway between Duke and UNC where I am most of the time... I am not a basketball fan... Just love academia.


31 posted on 04/03/2016 11:13:03 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Buttons12
So what is the new name? The Saracens?

I tried to read the article to see if a new name had been chosen but a "security alert" popped up and wouldn't let me read the rest of the article.

32 posted on 04/03/2016 11:16:33 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Buttons12

“They do drink a lot less alcohol than the students at Bucknell.”

I was 26 years old when I lived in a private house across from the SU Library (they tore my house down to make the parking lot that is there now). Next door to me was a sorority house(where the admissions office is now). They were not allowed to have kegs on class nights so I would have a keg and they would have pitchers....

It was rough.. At the time I was only 26 and teaching full time at another university.


33 posted on 04/03/2016 11:20:28 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Cowboy Bob

And rename themselves the SUSQUEHANNA HAT COMPANY!

“IS THAT A SUSQUEHANNA HAT! AGGH!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THZV5g1CNZM


34 posted on 04/03/2016 11:26:17 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Buttons12

River Hawks? Stupid name. It needs to be changed to Islamic Martyrs.


35 posted on 04/03/2016 11:33:27 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Buttons12

Ahhh yes, Pennsyltucky.

Just think how great this state would be if we could donate Philadephia to New Jersey and Pittsburg to Ohio!


36 posted on 04/03/2016 12:00:28 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: tired&retired
I actually have a home on the edge of Bucknell next to the Christy Mathewson Stadium.

I may have run into you. I have a place on the edge of BU also. Don't live there, just an investment and a handy place to park when I'm in the neighborhood.

37 posted on 04/03/2016 12:03:03 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

The new nickname is Hawks. You know, hawk, like the audible effort to bring up a load of spittle? Imagine the possibilities for the cheerleading squad.

Here’s another article on the subject, gently mocking the administration.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/24943/

News of the new nn came out today.

*hawwwwwwwwwwwwk!*


38 posted on 04/03/2016 12:15:12 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
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To: Buttons12

Isn’t the new name disrespectful of the chief of the Susquehanna Indians, Tomma Hawk?


39 posted on 04/03/2016 12:45:42 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Starboard
Crusaders:


40 posted on 04/03/2016 1:30:52 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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