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Offline Chris_

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Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« on: April 08, 2009, 05:40:16 PM »
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Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'

"Fall Weekend" will be taking the place of the holiday formerly known as "Columbus Day" at Brown University this fall.

The faculty of the Ivy League university voted at a meeting Tuesday to establish a new academic and administrative holiday in October called "Fall Weekend" that coincides with Columbus Day, but that doesn't bear the name of the explorer.

Hundreds of Brown students had asked the Providence, R.I. school to stop observing Columbus Day, saying Christopher Columbus's violent treatment of Native Americans he encountered was inconsistent with Brown's values.

"I'm very pleased," Reiko Koyama, a sophomore who led the effort, told the student newspaper, the Brown Daily Herald. "It's been a long time coming."

The change will take effect this fall.

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Teh stoooopid is strong there....changing the name of the holiday makes it all better.   :whatever: :mental:
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2009, 07:22:24 PM »
This is such a radical posuer hippie thing to do.  If they really had the courage of their convictions they would give the land the university is on back to the tribes who originally occupied the area and head back to whatever country their ancestors came from.
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2009, 07:30:09 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on April 08, 2009, 07:22:24 PM
This is such a radical posuer hippie thing to do.  If they really had the courage of their convictions they would give the land the university is on back to the tribes who originally occupied the area and head back to whatever country their ancestors came from.

At the very least they should give up that extra day off, and devote their time to charities benefiting native Americans.
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2009, 08:31:52 PM »
Being of Norwegian decent we NEVER honored Chris Columbine.

The vikings discovered NORTH AMERICA almost ""500"" years BEFORE Chris Columbine was even a twinkle in his daddy's eye.

And to be historically accurate, Chris Columbine NEVER found NORTH AMERICA, he found the Caribbien[sic] islands.
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2009, 08:34:19 PM »
Quote from: Bluesuiter-Retired on April 08, 2009, 08:31:52 PM
Being of Norwegian decent we NEVER honored Chris Columbine.

The vikings discovered NORTH AMERICA almost ""500"" years BEFORE Chris Columbine was even a twinkle in his daddy's eye.

And to be historically accurate, Chris Columbine NEVER found NORTH AMERICA, he found the Caribbien[sic] islands.


Prince Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd landed in America aroung 562 AD.
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2009, 08:37:48 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on April 08, 2009, 08:34:19 PM
Prince Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd landed in America aroung 536 AD.

I thought he landed here @ 1170A.D.
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2009, 08:47:06 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on April 08, 2009, 08:37:48 PM
I thought he landed here @ 1170A.D.

1170 AD is written by English writers.
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2009, 09:41:49 PM »
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Teh stoooopid is strong there....changing the name of the holiday makes it all better.   :whatever: :mental:


Until Brown University changes its name - you know, so that it's no longer named after its slave-trading founder - it lacks the moral authority to pass judgment upon the supposedly similar actions of others.
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2009, 09:56:17 PM »
They can call it Betty Boop's Weekend Booty Festival if they want, but the truth is Columbus Day is a federal holiday, it will stay a federal holiday, banks and post offices will be closed, and Brown University will not be holding classes.  Sounds like a celebration to me.
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2009, 11:09:16 PM »
We should have a Prince Madoc Day.
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2009, 11:28:04 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on April 08, 2009, 11:09:16 PM
We should have a Prince Madoc Day.

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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2009, 08:13:20 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on April 08, 2009, 11:28:04 PM
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She shouldn't have been carving her initials in it.
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Re: Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend'
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2009, 09:02:48 AM »
Quote from: Bluesuiter-Retired on April 08, 2009, 08:31:52 PM
And to be historically accurate, Chris Columbine NEVER found NORTH AMERICA, he found the Caribbien[sic] islands.


The Caribbean islands are in North America.
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