<div dir="ltr"><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 7px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-family:Oswald,sans-serif;font-size:30px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(144,144,144);letter-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(246,245,242)"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">In the "interest of inclusivity" The Daily Tar Heel will now use gender-neutral language in its stories.</li></h2><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 7px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-family:Oswald,sans-serif;font-size:30px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(144,144,144);letter-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(246,245,242)"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Words like "freshman," "spokesman," and "chairwoman" will no longer be used.</li></h2><div class="" style="margin:17px 0px 65px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26px;font-family:'Source Sans Pro',sans-serif;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(246,245,242)"><img src="http://www.campusreform.org/img/CROBlog/6823/UNC_Seal.JPG" alt="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; width: 865.344px;"></div><div class="" itemprop="articlebody" style="margin:40px 0px 52px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(246,245,242)"><p style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Source Sans Pro',sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:23px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has decided it will no longer use the word “freshman.”</p><p style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Source Sans Pro',sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:23px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">According to an <a href="http://www.dailytarheel.com/blog/paige-views/2015/09/why-weve-decided-to-switch-to-gender-neutral-terms-this-year" target="_new" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bold;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(233,28,36)">article</a> in Monday’s edition, “[i]n the interest of inclusivity, The Daily Tar Heel will from now on use gender-neutral language in its stories… we all see a pressing need to be inclusive in the way we write about people.”</p><div class="" id="large_quote" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:inherit;font-size:19px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 30px 30px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;float:right;width:325px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:38px;font-family:Oswald,sans-serif;font-size:26px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(26,26,26)">“UNC is such an interesting campus, always challenging its students, faculty, staff and administration to be more inclusive..."    <span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="" style="margin:0px 3px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:16px;font-family:inherit;font-size:11px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline-block"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 3px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:nowrap;display:inline-block;height:16px;background-image:url(http://w.sharethis.com/images/twitter_16.png);background-repeat:no-repeat">Tweet This</span></span></span></p></div><p style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Source Sans Pro',sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:23px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></p><p style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Source Sans Pro',sans-serif;font-size:1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 do here.”</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#666666" face="Source Sans Pro, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:19px;line-height:23px"><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6823">http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6823</a></span></font><br></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message.  A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well.  (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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