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Penn State University will drop 'male-centric' terms like 'freshman' and 'senior'
 - [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] In April, the University's Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs passed the 'Removal of Gendered & Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions'
- The senate recommended replacing freshman/sophomore/junior/senior with 'first-year',' second-year' etc.
- Other recommendations included replacing 'underclassmen' and 'upperclassmen' with 'lower division' and 'upper division'
- The phrase 'him or her' was also replaced with 'them' in a bid to become gender neutral
- Reaction to the resolution online has been mixed, with some people mocking the move as a failed attempt to be 'woke'
Posted by: Fred 2021-05-16 |
