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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by fortran77 on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:34AM (#24157727)
They say "frosh" now because "freshmen" is gender-specific. Many schools do this.
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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by tantalor on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:57AM (#24159599)
University administrators have now begun the process of replacing the terms “freshman” and “upperclassman” with the gender-neutral terms “first year” and “upper-level students” in official campus publications... “It’s really for public, formal correspondence and formal publications … we’re not trying to tell people what language to use in their everyday casual conversations,” Chun said. “We’re not trying to be language police.”

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/09/15/yale-formalizes-fr...

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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by neltnerb on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:43AM (#24157815)
I've only ever seen schools switch from freshman to "first year". Frosh is slang.
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