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CUNY: Don’t Call Students ‘Mr., Mrs. or Ms.’ Because That’s Maybe Disrespectful
National Review ^
| 01/28/2015
| Katherine Timpf
Posted on 01/28/2015 6:24:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York issued a memo advising staff not to address any students as Mr., Mrs. or Ms. beginning this spring because some could find it disrespectful.
The policy is intended to ensure a respectful, welcoming and gender-inclusive learning environment . . . and to accommodate properly the diverse population of current and prospective students, according to the memo, signed by interim provost Louise Lennihan.
School spokeswoman (wait can I call her that?) Tanya Domi said the initiative was also part of the schools working within a regulatory framework to comply with Title IX legal principles, which forbid discrimination based on sex at any institution receiving federal funding.
(Yes, the viewpoint that calling someone Mr. could ever be considered a violation of federal policy is terrifying.)
But attorney and Title IX consultant Saundra Schuster insisted to the Wall Street Journal that CUNYs new policy isnt necessary for complying with the law. They are not mandated to do this, she said.
That isnt stopping CUNY from requiring it. Linguistics professor Juliette Blevins told the Journal: My interpretation was that I was being asked to adhere to this policy, as were the professors who received the letter.
The idea behind all of it is to protect students who identify as a different gender from what their professors might expect.
Of course, all students have always had the ability to tell the school how they prefer to be addressed. It is not clear what the procedure will be for any student who does prefer to be addressed as Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. especially considering that these salutations have traditionally been seen as a sign of respect and not the opposite.
Katherine Timpf is a reporter at National Review Online.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuny; disrespect; mister; mrs
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To: SeekAndFind
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY...
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posted on
01/28/2015 6:25:14 AM PST
by
SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: SeekAndFind
what bee ess, have these morons lost their minds?
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posted on
01/28/2015 6:27:22 AM PST
by
yldstrk
To: SeekAndFind
Every time you think these people couldn't possibly get any stupider...
...they manage to do it anyway.
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01/28/2015 6:27:37 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(LET'S ROLL!)
To: SeekAndFind
The world is going insane.
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posted on
01/28/2015 6:27:45 AM PST
by
jalisco555
("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
To: SeekAndFind
CUNY: Dont Call Students Mr., Mrs. or Ms. Because Thats Maybe Disrespectful... Unless you've got tenure, in which case you can call them anything you like because nothing can be done to stop you.
Thereby creating a class system here at CUNY, which should cause your head to explode because you've believed that class distinctions are evil and must be destroyed ever since you first cut your teeth as a pseudo-intellectual way back in eighth grade.
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01/28/2015 6:28:15 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: SeekAndFind
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York issued a memo advising staff not to address any students as Mr., Mrs. or Ms. beginning this spring because some could find it disrespectful. "Hey, idiot" is much better.
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01/28/2015 6:28:55 AM PST
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Colonel_Flagg
(You're either in or in the way.)
To: yldstrk
what bee ess, have these morons lost their minds? Yes.
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01/28/2015 6:29:10 AM PST
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Blennos
To: SeekAndFind
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01/28/2015 6:31:02 AM PST
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KosmicKitty
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01/28/2015 6:32:29 AM PST
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deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: SeekAndFind
Call them all what they are, “sh*thead”.
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01/28/2015 6:33:49 AM PST
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FlingWingFlyer
(When the hell do I get MY white privilege? I'm tired of busting my @$$ for a living.)
To: SeekAndFind
They Call Me Cisgender Tibbs!
To Trans Person, With Love.
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01/28/2015 6:35:30 AM PST
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Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: SeekAndFind
They Call Me Cisgender Tibbs!
To Trans Person, With Love.
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01/28/2015 6:35:30 AM PST
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Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: SeekAndFind
And don’t say yes or no ma’am to Feinstein because she certainly is not a lady.
To: All
They call me... just plain old Tibbs.
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01/28/2015 6:36:40 AM PST
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deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: SeekAndFind
Stop the world, I want to get off.
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01/28/2015 6:37:40 AM PST
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miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
To: SeekAndFind
Once the Jewel in the Crown of New York education. My father graduated from Queens College in the late 40s. Wrecked by open admissions and pc propaganda.
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01/28/2015 6:40:02 AM PST
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miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
To: SeekAndFind
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01/28/2015 6:40:52 AM PST
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Cowboy Bob
(They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
To: All
And here's to you... uhh, ummm, ah, well, uhh
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01/28/2015 6:41:51 AM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: SeekAndFind
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York issued a memo advising staff not to address any students as Mr., Mrs. or Ms. beginning this spring because some could find it disrespectful.
Agreed. The proper options (not including clerical, royal or professional) are "Mr., Mrs. and Miss", out of respect for a proper description of female marital status.
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01/28/2015 6:42:59 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
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