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...mail to the Lowell open list sent less than two hours after the pest survey itself, Eric B. Linsker ’07 urged his fellow residents to withhold their feedback. The “genocidal language” of the survey—specifically the decision to refer to cockroaches as “pests”—led readers “to forget that American cockroaches and house mice are, like us, animals,” he wrote. But Alpert, the entomology officer of the University’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety...
What’s in a name?A quick internet search tells me that mine might refer to anything from Scottish nobility to an Australian Olympian to a small town in Iowa. In pop culture, I’ve been everything from a mathematician to a dysfunctional kid genius to a dead child psychologist.But after nearly two decades, my name—unique spelling and all—is something that has become a part of who I am. A name isn’t something that should be changed on a whim or disregarded, and it?...
...always been economic activity and wealth elsewhere. Now, investors and entrepreneurs from anywhere can hazard their skills and fortunes wheresoever they choose. Colette Neuville, a French shareholder activist, says of Mittal's bid: "It was a shock to discover that there are companies in places we used to refer to as the Third World that have become equal partners, or more than equal partners. Nobody had quite imagined that...
...addition, the tone, wording, and examples used within the column are personally abusive. Most glaringly, the article is unnecessarily concluded with, “I think the Crimson would have slaughtered the Indians.” It is no consolation that this was meant to refer to an athletic team, as the further dehumanization of the “Indian” moniker—no matter how tongue-in-cheek—only contributes to the politically correct debate that the author so sarcastically laments. Furthermore, the examples cited compare Native Americans to animals and, as is the case...
...symptomatic of a narrow mind. What this column fails to recognize is that many mascot names are generally acceptable because they reinforce positive cultural stereotypes (e.g., Minutemen, Colonials) or challenge non-negative cultural stereotypes (e.g., Fighting Quakers). On the other hand, most mascot names that refer to Native Americans reinforce negative cultural stereotypes: the Redskins (harking back to the notion that all Native Americans have red skin), the Fighting Sioux (reminding us that even until the 1950s, American children watched TV shows that depicted “the Injuns” as warrior peoples). If cultural progressivism is about creating...