A public liberal arts college in Washington state facing declining enrollment numbers has decided that placing restrictions on free speech is the best approach to growing enrollment numbers at the school.
The faculty senate at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., recently voted to ban the usage of the word “covenant” in the faculty handbook and other Evergreen official documents, due to the apparent association between the term and cultural genocide faced by Native Americans. According to the official motion, the faculty senate believes that replacing “covenant” with “community agreement” is a better choice of words to avoid offending Native Americans.
“Whereas needlessly using a word that institutionalizes the devastating colonization of Native Peoples is inconsistent with Evergreen’s stated commitment to social justice and to honoring Evergreen’s Nation-to-Nation Agreement with Tribes of Washington,” the proposal states. “We move that the word ‘covenant’ in the Faculty Handbook and other official Evergreen documents be replaced by the term ‘community agreement.’”
This is not the first time Evergreen State College has been cast into the spotlight because of liberal insanity on its college campus. In 2017, Evergreen State College gained national exposure after leftist protesters seized control of the campus for weeks, targeting professors whose views they disagreed with, causing substantial embarrassment for the campus and plummeting enrollment numbers as the public finally got to witness a case study for what unhinged leftist activism on campus can do to the educational experience of others.
Unfortunately, Evergreen appears to have ignored any potential lessons that arose during the 2017 campus protests, and faculty and administrators are going full steam ahead toward driving the campus deeper into the realms of liberal intolerance. For all of the problems the college has faced in the past two years, to focus on a single word that has zero racial implications and draft an official campus pact to ban its usage demonstrates that a majority of the campus faculty and administrators still live in a bubble away from the real world.
John Patrick (@john_pat_rick) is a graduate of Canisius College and Georgia Southern University. He interned for Red Alert Politics during the summer of 2012 and has continued to contribute regularly.
