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77devil
09-27-2012, 09:17 PM
Are the subject of a show on Fox about PC and gov. regulation. Making no comment on the content.

Better them than us.

linky (http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2012/09/27/stossel-goes-college-airs-tonight-9pm-fbn)
cf-62
09-30-2012, 09:42 PM
I didn't know that the word "Freshman" was banned over there. Just terrible.
Native
10-02-2012, 05:36 PM
I didn't know that the word "Freshman" was banned over there. Just terrible.

FWIW, technically you're supposed to call freshmen "First-Years" at Duke, too, though few do. Duke's a very liberal campus as well.
77devil
10-02-2012, 08:51 PM
FWIW, technically you're supposed to call freshmen "First-Years" at Duke too.


Sad but true. I dare not go further.
cspan37421
10-03-2012, 08:19 AM
FWIW, technically you're supposed to call freshmen "First-Years" at Duke, too, though few do. Duke's a very liberal campus as well.

Duke uses the term freshmen on their own website.

http://admissions.duke.edu/experience/first-year

"Read about first-year experiences from Duke freshmen."

Anyway, hasn't UVA long used the terms "first-year", "second-year", and so forth - long before the phrase/concept politically-correct (as we know it today) came about?

There is a potential for reasonable and enlightened discussion about the implications of using particular terminology or linguistic constructs but I don't think it'll be found here or at the link.
sagegrouse
10-03-2012, 09:38 AM
Anyway, hasn't UVA long used the terms "first-year", "second-year", and so forth - long before the phrase/concept politically-correct (as we know it today) came about?

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Yes, and I was once actually corrected by a UVa parent for using the term "freshman" instead of "first year."


sagegrouse
cspan37421
10-03-2012, 12:20 PM
Yes, and I was once actually corrected by a UVa parent for using the term "freshman" instead of "first year."

Yep, that's to be expected there. And remember, they don't have a campus, they have grounds.

I would not be surprised to find perambulators and taverns just beyond their grounds.
Jarhead
10-03-2012, 05:31 PM
Freshman is a person while first year is a year. Check it out at Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freshman). http://crazietalk.net/ourhouse/images/smilies/69.gif