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Role-Changing
The University of Washington has scrapped its tradition of having a Homecoming King and Queen in favor of non-gender-specific “homecoming royalty,” reports the Seattle Times.
The Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW), the campus
group that organizes homecoming, has broken from the annual tradition of a
homecoming king and queen in order to make the competition for a scholarship that comes with the titles more equitable.
"In our day and age, a lot of the traditional definitions of roles are changing, and this follows in line with that,” said Sumida Cho, one of this year’s winners. “Once people realize that this is not just a popularity contest but one based on qualifications, they'll hopefully understand and accept it."
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Too bad, folks...the train has left the station. Anyone hoping to salvage any shred of common sense should have spoken up fifteen years ago. As a result of your tardiness, you shall be subjected to such idiotic reasoning as this.
The University of Washington has scrapped its tradition of having a Homecoming King and Queen in favor of non-gender-specific “homecoming royalty,” reports the Seattle Times.
The Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW), the campus
group that organizes homecoming, has broken from the annual tradition of a
homecoming king and queen in order to make the competition for a scholarship that comes with the titles more equitable.
"In our day and age, a lot of the traditional definitions of roles are changing, and this follows in line with that,” said Sumida Cho, one of this year’s winners. “Once people realize that this is not just a popularity contest but one based on qualifications, they'll hopefully understand and accept it."
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Too bad, folks...the train has left the station. Anyone hoping to salvage any shred of common sense should have spoken up fifteen years ago. As a result of your tardiness, you shall be subjected to such idiotic reasoning as this.
