My suggestion of naming it after Moya Cannon so people can say ‘meet at the Cannon-ball?” clearly ignored by the powers that be
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Bit of context for anyone who’s going start banging on about “preserving history” or some such. The now-Boland library was built in the late 60s. It wasn’t named after Berkley until 1978, about 11 years after construction, when some high up in College staff decided we should copy the American habit of naming College Buildings after Alumni. It was just “The New Library” originally.
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Could they come up with a more contrived reason to rename it? I wouldn’t really care if it was named after some random lad who donated to the college or something but Berkeley is a giant in western philosophy and was an alumni of the college. Will we start seeing Yeat’s name ripped off things because of his political beliefs? Or is he just a tad too popular and well known as to cause too much backlash?
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HeyLittleTrain on
Awkward for the city of Berkeley in California
Different_Counter113 on
We are in the midst of a cultural revolution where fascists are dictating what we can say and think.
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Not really a fan of this here in Ireland.
My suggestion of naming it after Moya Cannon so people can say ‘meet at the Cannon-ball?” clearly ignored by the powers that be
Bit of context for anyone who’s going start banging on about “preserving history” or some such. The now-Boland library was built in the late 60s. It wasn’t named after Berkley until 1978, about 11 years after construction, when some high up in College staff decided we should copy the American habit of naming College Buildings after Alumni. It was just “The New Library” originally.
Could they come up with a more contrived reason to rename it? I wouldn’t really care if it was named after some random lad who donated to the college or something but Berkeley is a giant in western philosophy and was an alumni of the college. Will we start seeing Yeat’s name ripped off things because of his political beliefs? Or is he just a tad too popular and well known as to cause too much backlash?
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Awkward for the city of Berkeley in California
We are in the midst of a cultural revolution where fascists are dictating what we can say and think.
They are desperate for publicity