U of C targets controversial team names
Posted Jan 8, 2015 6:51 am.
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The University of Calgary is tightening up rules for intramural sports after complaints about sexist team names.
A student committee will now be monitoring hundreds of team names in sports like dodgeball, volleyball, and soccer.
Don McSwiney from The Faculty of Kinesiology tells City News, it’s important for students to feel safe and inclusive while participating in activities on campus.
“So, when the issue came forward, we seemed to have, more or less, a clear cut issue. If someone’s team name was causing other people to feel like they weren’t welcome in intermural sports, perhaps even threatened in intermural sports, that’s clearly not what we’re going for,” he said.
A petition posted in a Facebook group calling for the team names to be allowed has received just 26 signatures as of Thursday morning.
