Shorts bunching up

Rick Tosches writes:

The University of Colorado at Boulder has certainly generated its share of controversy.

Rampant pot smoking. A party school image. A philosophy department accused of sexual harassment. The soaring cost, now pegged at $156 million, of athletic facilities upgrades.

And most recently, a campus appearance by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who talked about troubling student debt. (Having a Democratic leader pontificate about debt is not unlike having a member of the Denver Sheriff Department lecture us on the importance of being kind to people.)

So, with such a full plate, the school's leaders spent nearly a year in discussions about a major campus issue: whether to rename dormitories with Arapaho names Houusoo Hall and, my personal favorite, Nowoo3 Hall.

The whole thing makes me cra76zy, as I'm sure it does you^&4uuu.

Last November the Boulder Campus Planning Commission recommended this terrific idea of honoring American Indians by giving Arapaho names to CU buildings where teenagers drink, smoke weed and have sex.

The commission OK came after some faculty members said the proposed names are taken directly from the Arapaho/Hinono'ei language and using any other spellings for the Boulder campus buildings would be culturally insensitive.

There was precedent for CU's plan. The University of British Columbia, and I am not kidding, has the Xwi7xwa Library, which leads to the obvious question: Can you major in wolverine trapping and pelt-trading, or do you have to pick one or the other? And at prestigious Stanford, there is — and again, I am not kidding — the Muwekma-Ta-Ruk Residence Hall.

Alas, this month CU announced its plan to name dorms Houusoo Hall and Nowoo3 Hall had been scrapped and the new plan calls for them to be named Little Raven and Niwot halls.

Which will, of course, make the Native Studies tenured faculty members' shor88ts bu9nch up3.

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