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To: Guardian who wrote (14962)6/12/2000 7:50:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.  Read Replies (2) of 62552
 
Beaver College To Change Name

PHILADELPHIA, Jun 12, 2000 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Get those nudge-nudge
wink-wink jokes in while you can, because Beaver College has decided to change
its name.

The board of trustees of the 2,800-student school in the Philadelphia suburb of
Glenside voted 23-1 to form a committee to recommend a new name, a spokesman
said Monday. Officials decided at the same time to petition the state for
university status.

"Beaver College doesn't really represent who we are anymore," college spokesman
Bill Avington said. "We're not in Beaver, Pennsylvania, anymore, and we're no
longer what anyone would think of as a college."

Friday's vote by the trustees comes after Beaver president Bette E. Landman said
in a letter earlier this year that the name "too often elicits ridicule in the
form of derogatory remarks pertaining to the rodent, the TV show 'Leave It to
Beaver' and the vulgar reference to the female anatomy."

Beaver College has appeared on David Letterman's Top 10 list, and Conan O'Brien
and Howard Stern have made jokes about it.

Founded in 1853 in Beaver County near the Ohio state line, the school moved
across the state to Jenkintown in Montgomery County in the 1920s and to its
present location in Glenside in the 1950s.

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On the Net: beaver.edu.





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