* Students at the University of Michigan may now designate preferred pronouns on class rosters, following a year-long effort by the UM “pronoun committee.”

* The policy had been demanded by a student petition last semester, which asserted that "trans students...often find themselves facing threats to their mental and physical safety."

* Other students, however, feel the university's resources could be better spent on "more pressing needs," such as helping students secure employment after graduation.

Students at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor may now designate preferred pronouns on class rosters, following a year-long effort by the UM “pronoun committee.”

According to an email sent out by the administration and obtained by Prager University, this means that any student can select whichever pronouns they wish, such as “he, she, him, his, ze, etc.,” or else default to no pronouns at all.

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“The University of Michigan is committed to fostering an environment of inclusiveness,” begins the email from Provost Martha Pollak and Vice President for Student Life E. Royster Harper.

"Asking about and correctly using someone's designated pronoun is one of the most basic ways to show respect for their identity and to cultivate an environment that respects all gender identities," Pollack and Harper assert. “If you make a mistake and use the wrong pronoun, you can acknowledge that you made a mistake and use the correct pronoun next time.”

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The committee responsible for this is made up of no less than 11 professors and administrators, who have reportedly been working for the past year to implement the new system.

Last semester, a Change.org petition was launched called “Have the University Put Student Pronouns on Class Rosters” which has thus far garnered nearly 800 signatures.

“Trans students at the University of Michigan often find themselves facing threats to their mental and physical safety,” the petition said, noting that before the policy change, students had to speak with their professors directly “or risk being misgendered in the classroom,” which the document calls “a mentally and emotionally draining experience.”

Some students, however, believe that the Pronoun Committee’s resources might have been better spent elsewhere, and question the actual value of the new policy.

“Considering the more pressing issues that we find on college campuses, such as affordability and securing employment for graduates, I am disappointed that our resources are being directed towards a committee like this one,” sophomore Talia Katz told Campus Reform. “There are much more real and important issues than protecting students’ delicate feelings and catering to an easily offended and highly sensitive generation.”

Campus Reform has reached out to the University of Michigan administration for additional details about the pronoun committee, but we have not yet received a response.

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A student has taken advantage of the opportunity afforded by University of Michigan's new pronoun policy, which allows students to list their chosen pronouns on the official bios that are sent out to their teachers.

The student, Grant Stroble, has listed his pronoun as "His Majesty."

He is stunning and brave. Applaud his courage. Weep openly, if you must.

Are you finished? Still reading? It's quite a moving story, I know.

Stroble's heroism will no doubt be celebrated by the university, which recently gave students the option of selecting their own pronouns in order to foster "an environment of inclusiveness." According to the university:

Students can designate pronouns in Wolverine Access through the new Gender Identity tab within the Campus Personal Information section. This page can be used to enter, update or delete pronoun information.

Designated pronouns will automatically populate on all class rosters accessed through Wolverine Access. Rosters pulled from other systems will not have designated pronouns listed. If a student does not designate a pronoun, none will be listed.

In other words, when professors receive the list of students enrolled in their classes, there will be a designated pronoun next to their names. Strobles's is "His Majesty."

Stroble—a conservative student and member of Young Americans for Freedom's Board of Governors—told The College Fix that he has no problem with students asking to be identified in the manner that makes them most comfortable. But he found the university's new policy to be absurd:

In an interview with The College Fix, Strobl said that "I have no problem with students asking to be identified a certain way, almost like someone named Richard who would like to be called Dick. It is respectful to make a reasonable effort to refer to students in the way that they prefer."

However, he added that he does have a problem when the university institutionalizes the use of pronouns that are completely arbitrary and may possibly sanction people for referring to someone different than their preference.

Strobl continued, "So, I henceforth shall be referred to as: His Majesty, Grant Strobl. I encourage all U-M students to go onto Wolverine Access, and insert the identity of their dreams."

A "Pronoun Committee"? I have a feeling these mental and physical safety issues are mostly in the heads of adult children who have been brainwashed by identity politics.

This registered sex offender I regularly converse with on the internet just said something really stupid

Have a terrible night and die in MANY fires.

is there an Verb Committee too ? there needs to be
all parts of speech need to be represented fairly

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Your progressive left...the most tolerant left there is folks, unless you contest them

I have seen many profiles on dating sites, mainly OkCupid, that are very similar to that. They'll go out of their way to say how open-minded or liberal they are only to follow it up with: "If you voted for _____, watch _____, or like _____, we won't get along." That's pretty much the opposite of open-minded and shows an inability to consider the legitimacy of an opinion other than their own.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Dan Bernstein is the chairman of the Adverb Committee.

is there an Verb Committee too ? there needs to be
all parts of speech need to be represented fairly

Your progressive left...the most tolerant left there is folks, unless you contest them

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

The error you make is in equating all Liberalism to people who are obsessed with identity politics.

Well, classic liberalism has been swamped by identity politics and the SJW movement. It's why I would never call myself a liberal. These people love the fallacy that who they are somehow affects facts. "As a black woman...", "As a trans man...", etc. Personal experience is often germane, but one's identity doesn't change any facts or automatically give a person higher ground in an argument.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

There still needs to be a distinction between economic liberalism and whatever "this" is. MANY socialist type thinkers couldn't care less about identity politics.

Nope. In this country, there are only two bags: liberal or conservative. If you don't like the bag you are put in, you have no one to blame but yourself and those lying sonofabitch people in the other bag.

Well, classic liberalism has been swamped by identity politics and the SJW movement. It's why I would never call myself a liberal. These people love the fallacy that who they are somehow affects facts. "As a black woman...", "As a trans man...", etc. Personal experience is often germane, but one's identity doesn't change any facts or automatically give a person higher ground in an argument.

But it's presented as fact. Julie said 40% of baseball fans are women. Then she said whatever team dressed up like women are offend 40% of the fan base. They're not and I'm guessing it's not even close. You can only talk about personal experience as that. Not as or for a group.

I'm saying that becomes fact for a lot of people.

I understand. Enough people repeat that women earn 78 cents for every buck a guy makes enough times and it becomes "fact". It no longer matters if it's actually true. That's why no one in Iran believes the Holocaust occurred.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

What's amazing with the 78 cents lie is that it injures women and families. It used to be that one income was enough to support a family. Now two is usually necessary. The "right to work" has made labor cheap. Rather than focus on this issue we are mostly worried about police shootings, pro-nouns and bathroom rights. So basically issues that directly affect about 5 percent of the population at most.