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The move comes amid a reckoning of the fraught history of team names across American sports. Potential new names include: “Ambassadors,” “Blue Fog,” “Revolutionaries” and “Sentinels.”
George Washington University will soon choose a new nickname for its athletic teams, dropping “Colonials” after years of pressure from students who said the name was entangled with violence toward Native Americans and other colonized people.
Trustees are expected to reach a decision on whether to eliminate the moniker completely by the end of the academic year.
Media Credit: Hatchet File Photo Officials have said previously they would consider six other renaming requests after making a decision on the colonials moniker renaming request. The Board of Trustees has yet to make a decision on the potential renaming of the Colonials moniker. University President Thomas LeBlanc said in January that he expected the Special Committee on the Colonials Moniker to finalize its renaming recommendations by the end of the past academic year, but University spokesperson Crystal Nosal declined to say if the committee met the target. The University renamed the Cloy...
Officials will honor 76 alumni, including a range of senators and actors, for a Monumental Alumni Award this fall as part of GW’s ongoing bicentennial celebrations, according to a release earlier this month. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and actress Kerry Washington are among the list of alumni who received the award for their careers’ influence across the world, according to the University’s website. Other honorees include Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Officials created the ...