Dean urges students to use ‘freshmores’ instead of ‘freshmen’ to be more inclusive

[rangerrebew]

 Dean urges students to use ‘freshmores’ instead of ‘freshmen’ to be more inclusive
Michael Jones - Auburn University •December 5, 2018
 

Around the Honors College at Appalachian State, you may hear a different way of labeling first-year college students. While they’re commonly referred to as freshmen at most universities, students at the North Carolina-based university often use a different term: “freshmores.”

The term was brought to Appalachian State University by Dr. Jefford Vahlbusch, hired in July of last year as dean of the Honors College. Vahlbusch previously held the same post at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, where he first started using the term.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/dean-urges-students-to-use-freshmores-instead-of-freshmen-to-be-more-inclusive/

[Polly Ticks]

"Freshmores" sounds like a feminine hygiene product.
 

[The_Reader_David]

Not only is the left insane, they have no sense of aethetics (or linguistics).

"First-years" (used alike by grad programs and women's colleges) is perfectly fine, as is "freshers".  "Freshmores" is not.

As to the lingistic problems "mores" in sophomores means "fools" so that sophomores are "wise fools", a description of the know-it-all attitude they often evince, and is from Greek.  "Fresh" is from Anglo-Saxon and one does not paste particles from different languages together. "Neomores" meaning "new fools" might work.  And then there's the fact that "man" and "men" originally were the equivalents of "anthropos" and "anthropoi" in Greek, not of "andras" and "andres".  We male human beings lost our proper English word "wapman" (plural "wapmen") and got stuck with the generic.  So freshmen are the new human beings at the school, firemen are human beings who put out fires, and the like.

[Wingnut]

Just call them S'mores. 

[Free Vulcan]

Fine. From now on 'Dean' is 'Douchebag' and 'Administration' is 'Asshatministration'

This is fun!

[sneakypete]

Dean urges students to use ‘freshmores’ instead of ‘freshmen’ to be more inclusive
Michael Jones - Auburn University •December 5, 2018
 

Around the Honors College at Appalachian State, you may hear a different way of labeling first-year college students. While they’re commonly referred to as freshmen at most universities, students at the North Carolina-based university often use a different term: “freshmores.”

The term was brought to Appalachian State University by Dr. Jefford Vahlbusch, hired in July of last year as dean of the Honors College. Vahlbusch previously held the same post at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, where he first started using the term.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/dean-urges-students-to-use-freshmores-instead-of-freshmen-to-be-more-inclusive/

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