This Week in Campus Insanity Vol. 43 Iowa State University / Source: Wikimedia Commons Alex Nester • May 8, 2021 4:55 am
Welcome back to Campus Insanity, a weekly roundup of the craziest developments at our nation s 4,000-plus institutions of higher education.
6. Yale Researcher Gives New Ant Species a ‘Non-Binary’ Scientific Name |
Yale taxonomy expert Douglas Booher suggested adding the gender non-binary identifier ‘they’ as a suffix to the name of a recently discovered ant species,
Strumigenys ayersthey. While species names typically end with either a masculine or feminine suffix, Booher intended to honor gay rights activist Jeremy Ayers with the plural pronoun.
5. U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee Workshop Helps Participants To ‘Confront Whiteness’ |