Posted on 11/30/2017 9:15:32 AM PST by Olog-hai
Trinity College Dublin, one of Ireland’s most prestigious universities, has announced that it will phase out use of the term “Freshman” in favor of the more gender-neutral “Fresh.”
Currently, first and second year students at Trinity are referred to as “junior freshmen” and “senior freshmen.”
The school’s Vice-Provost Chris Morash and Student Union President Kevin Keane shared the news in a mass email sent on Tuesday. They noted that the change stems from a proposal from Trinity’s Equality Committee that “the title given to first and second year undergraduates students be changed from ‘Freshman’ to the gender-neutral term ‘Fresh.’” […]
Trinity, which has a student population of approximately 16,000, introduced gender-neutral bathrooms to its Arts Block last year.
The Irish university is not the first college to do away with the term “freshman” — in the US, Yale University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have already followed a similar course. …
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
No need to change sophomore.
It already means “useful idiot.”
I’m Irish and I love Ireland but they are totally socialist.
I still use Personnel Department instead of Human Resources too. Sue me.
Mid-to-late 90s Newspeak. I remember that changeover.
But...but...
Wouldn’t the term “Fresh” offend some students who are age-challenged and offend other students who are hygiene-challenged?
IMHO, a better word-choice would be “first graders”, “second graders”, etc.
Or how about dumb, dumber, and dumbest? And senior year: you ain’t plannin’ to pay off your debt, are you?
What happened to “frosh”?
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