George Washington U. Changes Name of Student Association to Avoid Triggering People
“offensive and hurtful”
There are people on college campuses who are just looking for things to be mad about. This is proof.
The College Fix reports:
Elite university changes student government’s ‘SA’ acronym to avoid triggering students
George Washington University’s Board of Trustees has approved a request to rename the school’s Student Association to Student Government Association.
The reason is because the acronym for Student Association — or SA — might upset or confuse some students because it stands for sexual assault in some circles. With the new name, the acronym will be SGA.
The student government of the elite, Washington D.C.-based school had sent an official request in October for trustees to allow the name change and the campus leaders gave their stamp of approval in an unanimous vote Friday, the GW Hatchet student newspaper reported.
The student government vice president said the move takes the association away from an acronym that was “offensive and hurtful” to campus members, the Hatchet reported.
In October, when the issue was discussed at length, another reason given for the name change was because some student senators “also said they were concerned the SA acronym shares the same abbreviation of the Nazi Sturmabteilung — a Nazi paramilitary organization whose violent enforcement of party norms contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler,” the Hatchet reported at the time.
This is not the first time GWU students have led an effort to change tradition due to sensitivity concerns, with leaders acquiescing.
In 2022, the university dumped its “Colonials” nickname because it upset some students. Some had argued the Colonials nickname has “too deep a connection to colonization and glorifies the act of systemic oppression.”
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I hear SA and I think of Ernst Röhm’s troops.
As an Internet dood, to me it means South Africa — the place where racist incompetent black thugs murder whites, steal their farms, and turn them into tumbleweed plantations.
Aw, damn, I bet the student whiners didn’t think of that one, and are now kicking themselves.
Isn’t that ZA?
Nope. Rhodesia is a different place. Same results after “liberation”, but different place.
In Dutch, yes: “Zuid Afrika”, but in Dutch-derived Afrikaans “Suid Afrika”, hence SA.
More important, though: will university students who obsess over such things ever be able to hole a regular job?
Yes, a regular job involving holes.
(Ditch digger. What did you think I meant?!!?)
Snowflakes. Triggered by acronym. Unbelievable.
I’d like to know just how many were – in fact triggered. Probably – in fact – none.
The students might be requesting name change for purposes of making it easier to understand for whoever reads their resume. Student Assoc is ambiguous and could mean anything, like social party planning committee. It doesn’t indicate “government”. But having said that, if they are triggered by their former mascot name, they are woke joke.
the next move
american universities change language requirements
men not allowed to speak at all
Can gimp-suit male burkas be far behind?
If some American male student is enough of a simp to accept such a requirement, let him do so.
Waaaay too much damned time on their hands….increase their homework 500%.
When I worked in DC (the 80s) perhaps half of the student pop were foreign students. Has that changed? Way it was explained to me was that in many third world countries the premier uni was the one in that nations capitol. So GWU attendance had some extra worth in their view.
The campus store, in recognition of that fact I believe, used to sell tshirts and pull overs with the GWU name but a silhouette of Abe Lincoln.
Republican Abe Lincoln? Not Democrat Marion Barry? What frauds.