Eric Deckers
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first heard Jul 2026
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Administrators and students walked respectfully through the gathered throng as if they were used to this sort of thing.
Appleseed College of the Arts was located in Appleseed, Ohio, population sixty seven thousand eight hundred and fifty.
The county seat of Chapman County, about ninety minutes north of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The school's mascot was the s fighting summer tanagers.
A change that had been made from the previous mascot twenty five years earlier.
It happened because the students felt the team name, the lumberjacks, was inherently sexist and exploited people who performed manual labor for their living.
Students and alumni rallied and protested, both for and against the name change, and nearly every student on campus felt they had a dog in the fight.
Most students wanted to change the name to something artistic like potters, metalsmiths, or writers.
But this upset the performing artists and they insisted they be represented as well.
This united the two opposing groups who all agreed that the appleseed fighting modern dancers sounded idiotic.
As a compromise, they selected the fighting summer tanagers before defending against another complaint that the fighting part glorified violence.
That group was told to shut the fuck up, and everyone else agreed that the fighting summer tanagers was as good as it was going to get.
Not that it mattered since the school only had a collegiate co ed ultimate frisbee team, plus a soccer team and a skateboarding team.
Still, the name change created a long standing tradition of protest, social activism, and advocacy at the school until became until it became part of the curriculum at the school.
Okay, I think we've made our point with chanting, said Sarah.
What's next?
Kyle consulted his tablets.
Next, we're supposed to break off into discussion groups and come up with a mission statement.
Oh fuck, said Sarah, can't we just do more chanting?
No, Professor Barker was very clear.
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