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...Olympic Gymnast frequently arrives and decides she should try her hand at leading sustainability fieldtrips for urban teenagers. Seldom does a student define herself by one organization alone. Appended to every Facebook profile is an elaborate series of acronyms that, put together, suggest that this really is somebody: HIR, HPT, IOP, PBHA. You may not be UC President. But who else is the Business Secretary of Women and Youth Supporting Each Other and the Vice President of the Harvard Romanian Association and the only coloratura soprano in the Harvard Krokodiloes? Each additional acronym carves out a niche in which...
...issue is particularly salient for the transgender community on campus, which has been publicly ridiculed for using gender-neutral pronouns like ze and hir and bringing speakers to campus who wax poetic about boydykes, genderqueers, and butch fairies. Pronouns and terminology that express personal identity are not just about semantics. Words are more than words. Ze and hir are necessary pronouns for people who may not identify in a binary structure of male and female, and calling these pronouns ridiculous fundamentally means that you think living outside of that binary is equally ridiculous. It’s not just...
...respect each individual’s right to define gender and sexuality. It doesn’t hurt anyone, and it’s literally a matter of life and death for some students. The semantic debate is important, but it insults our intelligence when words like ze and hir are paraded around by people whose sole intent is to ridicule or belittle them to distract us from real problems of discrimination and physical violence that happen each and every day. It might be a bit much for my grandmother, but we’ve got a real opportunity...
Caving willingly to pressure, Wesleyan College’s imprimatur has been accorded to a group that wants to educate professors and incoming freshmen on the use of the transgendered pronoun “ze” and its possessive “hir...
Malhotra said the allegations had come as a surprise to HIR staff members and described Serbanescu as a "hard-working and loyal staff member...