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Just an FYI - Amherst College is in Massachusetts and its campus doesn’t have any skyscrapers. Is your photo a photo of Amherst, NY?
Edit: Guess my question was answered. New photo looks like Amherst campus.
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Doubtful. It’s a suburb of Buffalo.
Boston, I think?
I’m waiting for the day when someone suggests that Washington, DC should be renamed. After all, Washington owned slaves. The capital evidently should not be named after him.
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unease about Lord Jeff coalesced into a campaign when, in the spring of 2014, a moose appeared on campus
Oh, yea, sure, NYT…the moose…the trick’s the flying squirrel.
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Yup. Corner of State Street and Surface Road.
New name of the institution: Kumbaya Kollege.
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i understand that there’s some question whether the British deliberately infected Native Americans.
For years this was treated as an established fact. I accepted that. I’ve heard otherwise.
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I would also change the DC. Tesla proved long ago that AC was much superior!
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You do realize that if any of us around to see it, DC’s new state name would be New Columbia.
Again, a pipe dream, but so was American independence at one time.
Reminiscent of the great Oberlin College “sensitivity” rant of a few weeks ago. The good students decried the “cultural insensitivity” of serving General Tso Chicken made with broiled chicken. Supposedly insulting to Chinese culture that broiled and not fried chicken was used. The fact that General Tso Chicken is an American invention and appears nowhere in the Szechuan cooking appeared to be lost on the good students.
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DC is more appropriate. With DC you get resistance. With AC you just get impedance. You get a lot of resistance in Washington, especially if your’re a Democratic President.
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Yeah, but why let facts get in the way of a good rant! At least they didn’t go after Mexican Burritos.
It’s like the move to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford because of Rhodes’ imperialism. The person organizing the move? A Rhodes Scholarship recipient. “I’ll take the money, but don’t want to look at the statue.”
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This is definitely not in my bailiwick. If they want to change the unofficial mascot because the person he was named after is an offensive reminder of a certain kind of cruelty, intent on harming native people, I say, by all means, do it. Change can be a good thing, especially if it helps to raise awareness and tries to right a wrong. The college will survive and go on about its business just fine without the damn mascot.
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You’re on the right track. Everything named Washington and Jefferson is going to have to be revisited, and that’s just for starters. Add Lee, (Stonewall and Andrew) Jackson, and more, and we’ll be at it for a lifetime.
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Ending up like the Balkans. Ready to go to war at the drop of a hat for something that happened in 1478.
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Let’s not talk about all things (Junipero) Serra, named after the priest who walked the length of California founding missions with conscripted Native Americans who died of European diseases. Pope Francis is going to bestow sainthood on him.
Ruh roh. Double trouble. “Why does the Pope have to be a man?”
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I’m willing to bet any sum of money that if statehood ever approaches there will be people debating the name of the state. Naming anything after Columbus is surely just as inappropriate as naming it after Washington.
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Because the Pope isn’t the shepherdess of the flock.