Posted on 04/11/2017 7:32:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Rice University has agreed to officially change its title for the heads of its residential colleges from master to magister, saying master had to go because of its negative historical connotation, according to campus officials.
Despite the fact that the term master may have originated as an abbreviation of headmaster or schoolmaster, many are reportedly upset by the term because its a reminder of slavery.
Magister is a classical Latin word meaning teacher and has been used historically as an academic title for a scholar, states John Hutchinson, dean of undergraduates, in an April 6 memo announcing the change.
It conveys the traditional role and duties of the people holding this position, without the negative historical connotation of the word master, Hutchinson stated. We believe that college magister holds true to our cultural roots, while eliminating the concerns and confusion about the previous title.
The process of changing the name started early last year when Rice officials decided that a discussion was in order after some Ivy League schools also changed the master title, citing its historical ties to slavery. Princeton and Yale changed their title from master to head of college. Harvard changed the name to Faculty Deans.
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I wish I could quit donating to Rice U, but I never went there.
I’m going to stop calling it rice-a-roni because some people may have a “negative connotation” based on Rice U.
I’ll serve crap-a-roni for those people who can’t grasp the concept of a word having multiple usages and who would rather think of crap than Rice U when they eat.
I’d bet those same people who have a problem with different usages for “master” are fine with the word “woman” being used both for someone without a penis and someone with an unwanted penis.
...The potential for abnormal outrage is endless...
Especially considering the deep South location of the “Masters.”
BAtion
I, for one, am totally sick of this PC $6/+.
I vaguely recall some group manufacturing outrage when they started complaining about slave amd master hard drive arrangements.
The Massa’s Degree is to be replaced by the Overseeah’s Degree.
Guess that there can’t be,
a master Drummer
a master Violinist
a master Carpenter
a Master Sergeant. ????
Only idiots have a College degree.
Baa, Baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir! Three bags full.
One for the master,
One for the dame,
And one for the flapper girl
Who struts down the lane.
right after banning the term ‘master’ they all ‘jumped down, turned around, and picked a bale of cotton’
Let’s not forget the marginalization of the flapper girl.
/sarcasm
They’re always looking for another “proof” that this country is evil and racist. After they go through the dictionary looking for words to excise, then what? What’s next after that?
Howard Hughes briefly attended Rice, but dropped out when his father died.
Rice’s school colors are blue and gray, supposedly because William Marsh Rice made much of his fortune during the Civil War, smuggling and selling to both sides.
Personally, I think it would have been interesting if college masters had been called “magisters” from the beginning. But to do it now, for PC reasons, hell no.
“University” denotes educational ranking so should be done away with, too.
I believe it entirely depends on how those terms make people feel.
God, please help America. Half of our people are truly lost souls.
Gee, I wonder what this means for my Master of Science degree?
The term "master" will be stricken from the language.
And science, strictly speaking, no longer exists.
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