The University of California Berkeley is once again desperately trying to make its liberal campus even more politically correct.
The admissions office has announced that it will no longer use the phrase “spring admits” to refer to freshman who were admitted for the spring semester, the Daily Californian reported. It is a part of the school’s effort to make the university more inclusive.
Amy Jarich, assistant vice chancellor and director of undergraduate admissions, told the campus paper that certain students are admitted for spring because of a lack of space for them in the fall and the “spring admit” label makes them feel “that their admission was significantly different.”
“We don’t want you to feel like a second choice,” Jarich said. “You are someone I dearly want to come here, but I don’t have a seat for you right now.”
Casey Given, who was a “spring admit” before graduating from Berkeley in 2012, told Campus Reform that he never found the label offensive because it made “perfect sense.”
“The manufactured outrage to a rather innocuous phrase is another symptom of Berkeley’s illness with freedom of expression,” he told the news outlet.
“Despite being the literal home of the Free Speech Movement, the university has become overly obsessed with political correctness to the point of absurdity, as is well seen in the ‘spring admit’ example.”
