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  • #31
    Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

    Originally posted by Birdwatcher View Post
    The last time I went through Philadelphia was taking my son to visit Clarkson. Dairy farm, dairy farm, dairy farm, town. Repeat until you reach Potsdam. He was unimpressed. I thought he'd swoon at Gouverneur or Canton and excuse my middle finger as I drove through the east part of Canton. He chose a different college - as did all my sons. :sob:
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    • #32
      Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

      Originally posted by Birdwatcher View Post
      I did put a winky there
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      • #33
        Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

        Originally posted by bakdraft21 View Post
        Hey Russell I thought it was poison pretzels not blankets..
        NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not the pretzels! Oh, the humanity!
        Russell Jaslow
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        • #34
          Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

          Originally posted by Buckeye22 View Post
          And again, the school has said unequivocally that it's not changing the name of the school, and I'm pretty sure the town isn't switching names anytime soon either. Honestly, I don't have super strong opinions on the name one way or the other, but I find it funny that some people on here are basically arguing the school and the student body should keep a name they don't want just for the sake of not being seen to cave to political correctness.
          The irony of this thread is that letter the school put out is perhaps the most level headed common sense letter ever written on this type of subject and political correctness. Yet, everybody is still going apesh*t over this...
          Russell Jaslow
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          • #35
            Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

            Originally posted by Russell Jaslow View Post
            The irony of this thread is that letter the school put out is perhaps the most level headed common sense letter ever written on this type of subject and political correctness. Yet, everybody is still going apesh*t over this...
            You are correct. I had not seen nor looked for it until you said something. Very well done. And here's a link, in case others want to find easily.

            https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-stor...ts/node/627738
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            • #36
              Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

              Originally posted by GB Puck Fan View Post
              You are correct. I had not seen nor looked for it until you said something. Very well done. And here's a link, in case others want to find easily.

              https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-stor...ts/node/627738
              Impressive letter indeed. I think people are quick to jump to the outrage because of what else has happened at other "elite" New England institution: the Halloween circus at Yale, the BLM library raid at Dartmouth, Williams disinviting a conservative speaker from an "Uncomfortable Learning" series, etc. I was never aware that Lord Jeffs wasn't an official mascot, as that's all I've ever seen Amherst referenced as. But, the reasoning laid out in the letter is encouraging.

              With that said, two things about this debate annoy me as someone interested in history. 1) Judging 18th Century actions by 21st Century values (the use of biological/chemical warfare wasn't universally condemned until after WWI). 2) I find it ironic when people think they're being politically correct and enlightened in defending American Indian tribes and then grouping them all together. The Comanches are as different from the Iroquois, for example, culturally, linguistically, and politically as the English are from the Italians (even more so, actually).

              And I guess there's a third thing. I understand that this is indeed a forum focused on DIII hockey, but I don't understand why people are so quick to shut down discussion about issues that affect the institutions that support and sponsor DIII hockey when the issue is something administratively, be it tuition costs, enrollment trends, or changing the mascot. Everyone on this board is a hockey fan, but most people here are also fiercely loyal to their school, and this forum gives us a venue to discuss these issues.
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              • #37
                Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

                Originally posted by Russell Jaslow View Post
                The irony of this thread is that letter the school put out is perhaps the most level headed common sense letter ever written on this type of subject and political correctness. Yet, everybody is still going apesh*t over this...
                everybody?

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                • #38
                  Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

                  Perhaps Amherst needs to go the Prince route.... "the hockey team formerly known as the Lord Jeffs"

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                  • #39
                    Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

                    Hamsters?

                    http://wtop.com/other-sports/2017/01...on-new-mascot/
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                    • #40
                      Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

                      Originally posted by GB Puck Fan View Post
                      No worse than the Roos of Canton

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                      • #41
                        Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

                        I would like to see them called the Zebra's. Not nearly enough sports teams out there called that.

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                        • #42
                          Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

                          Originally posted by Scott_TG View Post
                          No worse than the Roos of Canton
                          I would say its worse,or at least a bigger rat looking thing......How about blowdryers...

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                          • #43
                            Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

                            Originally posted by GB Puck Fan View Post
                            Alert to Oswego fans. This comes from the REAL WTOP
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                            • #44
                              Re: Goodbye, Lord Jeff

                              Originally posted by Scott_TG View Post
                              No worse than the Roos of Canton
                              Yeah, sorry, the Fighting Hamsters is worse than the Canton Roos! Actually, now that I look at the list, the rest of the choices aren't very good either. I thought this school housed the intellectual elite...
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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by NUProf View Post
                                Alert to Oswego fans. This comes from the REAL WTOP
                                The New York State version has better sports reporting.
                                CCT '77 & '78
                                4 kids
                                5 grandsons (BCA 7/09, CJA 5/14, JDL 8/14, JFL 6/16, PJL 7/18)
                                1 granddaughter (EML 4/18)

                                ”Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
                                - Benjamin Franklin

                                Banned from the St. Lawrence University Facebook page - March 2016 (But I got better).

                                I want to live forever. So far, so good.

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