{"id":1518407,"date":"2022-06-16T08:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518407"},"modified":"2022-06-16T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:23:14","slug":"george-washington-university-cancels-colonial-mascot-for-not-being-inclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-washington-university-cancels-colonial-mascot-for-not-being-inclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"George Washington University Cancels Colonial Mascot for Not Being \u201cInclusive\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-washington-university-cancels-colonial-mascot-for-not-being-inclusive%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518407&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">George Washington University (GW) officials have decided to remove the school\u2019s \u201cColonial\u201d mascot following years of woke activists demanding the university ban it for not being \u201cinclusive.\u201d\u00a0Students then suggested the university change its mascot to a \u201chippo\u201d or a \u201criverhorse\u201d instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a thoughtful and deliberate process that engaged the university community for feedback, the George Washington University\u2019s Board of Trustees has accepted the recommendation of a Special Committee to discontinue the use of the Colonials moniker,\u201d GW\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moniker.gwu.edu\/\">announced<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to change the Colonials moniker was not taken lightly,\u201d the university added, before stressing that \u201ca new moniker will help unify the university community and serve as a source of pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a purported email shared to Twitter by\u00a0Young Americas Foundation, the university went on stress that it is important for the new GW mascot to reflect \u201cthe values, strengths and diversity of our worldwide population.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The George Washington University has voted to get rid of the colonial mascot, after years of concerns from leftists about the \u201cinclusivity\u201d of the mascot. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4QeF6K3cup\">https:\/\/t.co\/4QeF6K3cup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cg271N6nlJ\">pic.twitter.com\/Cg271N6nlJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YAF (@yaf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yaf\/status\/1537104689203912711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The university added that choosing a new moniker \u201cwill require a deliberate and thoughtful process\u201d that \u201cwill engage the entire GW community of alumni, students, friends, faculty and staff to ensure that everyone has the chance to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GW announcing that it has decided to scrap the Colonials comes after years of woke activists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2019\/02\/14\/students-demand-george-washington-university-change-colonials-mascot\/\">demanding<\/a> the school change its mascot.\u00a0The initial call to ban the university\u2019s mascot began in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In urging GW to end the Colonials, students argued the nickname may \u201cdiscourage\u201d the campus community due to it not being \u201cinclusive.\u201d Students then suggested the university change its mascot to a \u201chippo\u201d or a \u201criverhorse\u201d instead.<\/p>\n<p>The university said it will continue to use the Colonials mascot until a new nickname is chosen. The school\u2019s new moniker is expected to be introduced by the 2023-2024 academic year.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University (GW) officials have decided to remove the school\u2019s \u201cColonial\u201d mascot following years of woke activists demanding the university ban it for not being \u201cinclusive.\u201d\u00a0Students then suggested the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1518569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}