T.C.—Ronald Thompson and Vladimir Petrov were two of my favorite all time professors.
Petrov had the most amazing life!!Check out the write up on Wikipedia on “Professor Vladimir Petrov”.
Truly astonishing .Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

I really have to laugh at the idea of naming our teams the Generals.  Do people not remember the Washington Generals or something?  And to be clear, I'm one more liberal person who strongly believes we should keep Colonials.

Leave it to the school to make the right decision (no change to the name) for the wrong reason (money).  Given how the past 5 years have gone, I'd gladly take it.

Just wanted to also applaud Poog for finding the right words that i had trouble articulating.  Earlier in the thread, I had mentioned that I was against changing the name of the school entirely even if I could better understand this.  The reason I am against this is despite how horrific slavery was and how obvious it is today to condemn it, it was in fact acceptable in George Washington's day and part of the economy.  It would be like chastising cigarette smokers back when nobody knew that smoking could be detrimental towards one's health.

Hugh wrote:

Gwmayhem wrote:

It would be like chastising cigarette smokers back when nobody knew that smoking could be detrimental towards one's health.

This may be the worst take I've ever read.

Agreed. Not a good analogy at all. Cigarette smoking was not intended to control or harm someone else.In fact, the harms of cigarette smoking were first thought to be personal only. It was only later that second hand smoke was determined to be harmful. Slavery was slavery and it was designed to solely benefit the slave owner at the sole expense of the slave. It never changed despite being legal. The two are not remotely close.

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Lighten up boys.  Do you really think my intent was to undermine the awful nature of slavery, or accept it today in any way?  Or that cigarette smoking today is as serious a problem as slavery was in earlier times?  The parallel is that at one point in time, a certain behavior was not only not condemned but was in fact accepted.  I wasn't comparing the magnitude of the two offenses in the slightest.

I'd go with Foggy Bottom Basketball Team.

GW69. Didn't Petrov say he was an engineering student and a Commisar's  daughter took an interest in him? But P said he was more interested in engineering. Somehow, this situation got him thrown into a Gulag. Vague memory of that. I also remember him telling us to watch two people at a form of international get together. Two foreign diplomats were wandering around the crowd. Petrov said to watch those guys. He said one was English and one was Italian. Social distancing in the old days. The Italian was trying to get close to the Englishman because Italians speak face to face. The Englishman wanted separation. Thus the waltz around the room. Hilarious!  

I am comfortable with keeping the Colonials name or changing it. If we do go with a different name, how about the Presidents or the Revolution?

 

I remember a cheer where Colonials was spelled out. I have also yelled Go Colonials more than once.

Threads like this have me convinced this board should be 5 months a year, then take a 7 month hiatus

#LFGM