Posted on 07/14/2020 12:52:58 PM PDT by John Semmens
The faculty of Washington & Lee University are uncomfortable with the name and are recommending it be changed "to better conform with contemporary sensitivities." George Washington was an early benefactor and Robert E. Lee was a former president of the university.
The three permanent Black faculty members at the university's law school want both names removed. Brandon Hasbrouck, an alumnus and associate professor of law suggested a compromise that would remove only Lee's name. As for what the new name should be, opinions are divided.
History Professor Zinn Howard wants the school to be rechristened Marx & Lenin University "to more accurately reflect the direction the nation will be taking in the future. Marx was the genius who deciphered human history's inevitable march toward a communist utopia. Lenin was the man of action who implemented the first positive step in 1917."
Gender Studies Professor Ethel Herman feared that "Professor Howard's suggestion might be too much, too soon. I think it might be better to take a more gradual path toward his ultimate destination. Perhaps Wilson & Roosevelt would be more acceptable. Both Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt adapted Marx's collectivist vision into distinctly American format."
Student body president Alfred Neuman argued against "cramming in some new name. No famous person is without scandal of some sort. Let's just erase both names and retain only the ampersand. The resulting '& University' allows us to imagine it to be anything we want it to be."
In related news, the faculty of Princeton University wrote a letter to the administration expressing its disgust with "the school's rampant anti-blackness" and demanded "48 reforms"--including "ideological conformity in future faculty hiring" and "a non-white committee dedicated to purging racism from all publications—past and future." "We must be free to teach the truth to our students without the distraction of unwarranted questioning from either students in the classroom or heretical articles in academic journals," the letter concluded.
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Interesting to find out what the alumnus of this formerly fine institution have to say and whether they pull their endowments and gifts. I would.
F Washington and Lee University. Who cares about that?
Yale must change its name. It was founded by and named for a slave trader, not just a slave owner. If we must wipe out our history, Yale must too. All of its grads and alumni must stop referring themselves as Yalies or Yale grads, and start referring to themselves as graduates of Mobuto Sese Seko University, or Mumia Abu-Jamal University, whatever name they choose. But Yale has to go. It’s a damn symbol of racism in our Country, and of slavery.
Surprised this is satire.
Not enough.
I say we shut the entire school down. I am surprised the libtards would even work there in the first place and take money from such a place.
Shut it down, bulldoze it all over. Put a nice asphalt parking lot there.
“Professor Howard”
Ya still killin’ me J
“The faculty of Washington & Lee University are uncomfortable with the name”
They’re uncomfortable...I’ll dispatch a waaaaaambulance right away equipped with built is safe spaces and puppies.
EMPLOYEES DO NOT RUN THE COMPANY.......
I couldn’t do harm to puppies like that.
Cloward and Piven University would also be appropriate.
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