Rutgers approves preferred student name policy

[GBCW 397]

Rutgers has approved a student preferred name policy, starting last week. According to the policy, class rosters, Sakai and Rutgers Electronic Grading and Information System will allow students to use preferred names instead of legal names.

This policy would no longer require students, especially gender-nonconforming ... and transgender students, to email professors beforehand to use different names or pronouns, said Zaneta Rago, acting director of the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities.

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The policy did not face any kind of pushback.

http://www.dailytargum.com/article/2014/09/rutgers-preferred-student-name-policy

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

That won't get abused at all...

[GBCW 397]

That won't get abused at all...

I wonder if one can choose to not have gender at all.

"I like to be called toaster oven, toast for short. My pronoun of choice is it."

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You just know someone will insist on being called something silly like Stinky Wizzleteats to embarrass the teachers.

[JohnR! 5,495]

To be sure, universities are the last place on Earth where innovation and cultural non-conformance should take place. What are they thinking letting students make decisions on their own!

The horror! The humanity!!!

[Ryan H 3,812]

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You just know someone will insist on being called something silly like Stinky Wizzleteats to embarrass the teachers.

And the militant left will rejoice their 'victory'.

[Pooky 3,781]

To be sure, universities are the last place on Earth where innovation and cultural non-conformance should take place. What are they thinking letting students make decisions on their own!

The horror! The humanity!!!

The most pertinent word in all the above is "students".

You have seen Animal House, I presume?

What could possibly go wrong?

[JohnR! 5,495]

The most pertinent word in all the above is "students".

You have seen Animal House, I presume?

What could possibly go wrong?

True. Looking back, we didn't always make the most appropriate choices at that age, but still, we wouldn't be who and what we are today had we not had lived to excess during those years. Now it's their time to make their mistakes and to sort out by themselves.

[Novembro 1,763]

True. Looking back, we didn't always make the most appropriate choices at that age, but still, we wouldn't be who and what we are today had we not had lived to excess during those years. Now it's their time to make their mistakes and to sort out by themselves.

And someone might really enjoy being called 'toast'. Who knows?

[JohnR! 5,495]

And if you're to be called 'toast' you ought to do it while you're young. Nobody will call you that when you're past your 40s...

And someone might really enjoy being called 'toast'. Who knows?

[Novembro 1,763]

And if you're to be called 'toast' you ought to do it while you're young. Nobody will call you that when you're past your 40s...

People will keep calling me Elvis until I retire, methinks.

[JohnR! 5,495]

:rofl: Or until you fake your own death...

People will keep calling me Elvis until I retire, methinks.

Edited September 10, 2014 by JohnR!

[Novembro 1,763]

It was Colonel Mustard in the bathroom with the ham sandwich!

[Illiria 980]

People will keep calling me Elvis until I retire, methinks.

This already happens a lot in uk universities when overseas students come over for graduate studies who have names that are not easy for English speakers to say or have different meanings in English.

Oddly the Chinese and Japanese students tended to choose quite old fashioned names, like Cora, Rupert and Flora. Though we did have an Elvis one year.

Edited September 10, 2014 by Illiria

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

It will be cool for the first year or two but then....

"I Want to be called Starlord"

"I'm sorry Mr. Goldstien, Starlord taken. Starlord77 is available if you would like it"