University of Southern CA Creates Task Force to Identify Problematic Building Names
“may evoke views and practices that we no longer support”
Remember when the left assured us this was only about Confederate monuments? Good times.
The College Fix reports:
USC creates task force to get rid of building names that ’cause pain’
Some universities respond to sudden outrage over decades-old building names and campus symbols by hastily caving to pressure and promising to rename or remove them.
The University of Southern California wants to be ahead of the curve. That’s why it’s creating a task force that will recommend a process for tossing problematic figures down the memory hole.
In a memo Monday, Provost Michael Quick said the community is “having important conversations about the names of certain buildings, monuments, and symbols” that “may evoke views and practices that we no longer support.”
These elements of campus also “may cause pain for members of our community,” interfering in the private university’s quest to be “a national leader in equity and inclusion” and create a “safe, welcoming, and supportive campus,” Quick wrote.
Portraying his action as a response to student government resolutions asking for “open discussions” on these issues, and faculty members asking for a “method for such a reexamination,” the provost announced the Task Force on University Nomenclature.
Its mission is to “articulate a set of principles” to guide USC’s decisionmaking on problematic names and “outline a process” for the community to “submit items for consideration.”
It’s important that the task force not be seen as dealing with “a particular issue or controversy,” he said.
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So pretty much every building named after a straight white christian conservative male is toast. I suspect this won’t end until the “white house” is renamed.
The piece of freeway near Pasadena, CA, recently named “Barack H. Obama Freeway“ causes me a lot of pain. I recommend we rename it to “Donald J. Trump Freeway.“
As long as the name of the building is reasonably pronouncable by a normal American, none of the names of buildings bother me!
I think I speak for the majority of the community at USC when I say that “Can I get laid this weekend?” or “who is sober/straight enough to make the run to Tommy’s tonight?” are far more urgent issues!