George Washington University students voted last week to “remove and replace” its athletics nickname, the Colonials.

The student newspaper, the GW Hatchet, reports that 54 percent of students who voted in this spring’s Student Association elections supported the student referendum, which calls on the administration to remove the Colonial nickname.

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