“Mr. and Mrs. Politically Correct have laid down the law at City University of New York, where gender-specific salutations are now a no-no. School officials sent out a memo barring professors and other staffers within the graduate program from addressing students with titles like ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.,’ according to the Wall Street Journal. ... ‘Effective Spring 2015, the (graduate center’s) policy is to eliminate the use of gendered salutations and references in correspondence to students, prospective students, and third parties,’ read the memo to employees. ‘Accordingly, Mr. and Ms. should be omitted from salutations.’ While the directive specifically targets written interactions with students and prospective students, Tanya Domi, a spokesperson for the school told the newspaper that the policy should be ‘interpreted as broadly as possible.’” “New York college bans,” Fox News, Jan. 29, 2015 Comments are closed.
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