Academia in Real Life: Mississippi University for Women changes name

LOL, ill-advised name. Tried to go for Welty University earlier and her family didn't like it.

I get they need a change but even without the other meaning, it's lame and uninspiring.

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Only one small problem. No one checked out Urban Dictionary.

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This is 2024 so Maybe they did! The name change funding could have come from a leftist think tank.

MBU…underwritten by anyone on the Epstein list.

For those of us too lazy to look, what’s the big issue I’m missing here?

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They even have men's athletic teams that play for MUW.

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I’ve had multiple women in my life that went to MUW and I never knew this. I thought it was all women.

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They are having a hard time recruiting students, and they feel like the name is holding them back.

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Probably not a bad assumption honestly.

I think the new name is solid

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Probably not a bad assumption honestly.

I think the new name is solid

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imagine being a high school boy's basketball or baseball player trying to impress a college staff and you hear the coaching staff that's taken an interest in you is from the Mississippi University for Women

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a university which was once "for Women" is changing its name... something it's been too lazy to do for like 40 years... since it does in fact enroll men

I'm sure opposing men's teams become interested when they see a school with "for Women" in its name on their schedule

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Did you not read the OP?

The “big issue” is that “Brightwell” apparently means “sex addict” according to Urban Dictionary.

It’s a state university, funded by taxpayers. There was a SCOTUS case where a man who wanted to go to their nursing school sued them.

SCOTUS agreed with him and they had to start admitting men but didn’t change the name. In the mid 90s when I was going to college, their marketing message was Mississippi University for Women … and Smart Men Too.

It’s basically nursing and teaching degrees (they do offer some business) but enrollment has been falling. They added men’s sports a few years ago in an effort to help attract students. They have flirted with a name change but it’s never happened. They changed it today and the name means sex addict.

Urban Dictionary

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› define
› term=brightwell

noun. often used as a surname, but mostly considered another word for 'sex addict'. Mr A: i had the most amazing sex last night! it lasted hours!

Back in the day the joke was that MUW’s football team was awful because they had too many split ends and not enough ball carriers.

[img]What was the intended meaning or origin of brightwell for them?[/img]

Sex addict duh.