Dr. Clyde A. Lynch, a former president of Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa., should have been born with a better name, because a group of mostly black students at the school want to erase his from a building at the school.
Oh, they aren't saying the man was a racist, just that his name, well, is said to have negative racial connotations and is offensive, according to Downtrend.com.
"We are here to stop the marginalization," said student Cara Breslin, "by changing the institution."
The group hopes, according to Tamara Baldwin, president of the school's Black Student Union, to "level the playing field, for all marginalized people on campus," and to "make sure their voices are heard and that all the things they are lacking on campus are acknowledged."
No mention was made whether they had contacted black U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch or the, uh, White House.
Oh, the horror
A Roselle Park, N.J., councilwoman has resigned because her borough did the unthinkable - it called a Christmas tree lighting ceremony a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
"I cannot in good conscience continue to be part of a council that is exclusionary or to work with a mayor who is such," former Councilwoman-at-Large Charlene Storey said in her resignation letter, according to NJ.com.
Storey, admittedly a "non-believer" in the baby whose birth Christmas honors, told the news site that having the word "Christmas" added to the event title "cuts non-Christians out of the loop and favors one religion."
Why she didn't call the American Civil Liberties Union or the Freedom From Religion Foundation, as have so many of her brave fellow Christmas fighters, is anybody's guess.
Mayor Carl Hokanson probably spoke for the rest of the borough with his response to her tantrum.
"It's not a street, it's not a building, it's a Christmas tree," he said.
Androgynous folk unite
An androgynous character in a fictional comedy is the latest affront to those who must be offended.
The comedy, "Zoolander 2," is facing criticism and a boycott from a group of people who claim the film is offensive because of its "representation of non-binary individuals," or people who don't define themselves as male or female.
The character, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, is asked by the lead characters in the movie whether he's "male or female." Those who protest says the character is portrayed in a cartoon-like fashion and, even worse, the character is being played by a nontransgendered actor.
In the movie, the protesters said, filmmakers endorse "harmful and dangerous perceptions of the queer community at large."
"I don't even know what to make of it," writer Justin Theroux said, "because it hurts my feelings in a way. I take great care in the jokes I write, and the umbrage being taken is out of the context of the scene. I wish people would see the movie first. With social media and all the rest of it, people's issues need to be heard at the end of the day, people are looking for bandwidth. People are looking for places to inject their voice. But our target is not, and never was, to disenfranchise anyone."
Converting Democrat?
Which U.S. politician said "anywhere between 5 and 20 percent" of Muslims may be willing to use terrorism to establish a worldwide caliphate?
Donald Trump? No, it was Democrat U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez of California.
"Certainly, we know that there is a small group, and we don't know how big that is - it can be anywhere between 5 and 20 percent, from the people that I speak to - [of those in which] Islam is their religion," the California Democrat told Larry King Wednesday in an interview last week on his "Politicking" show on the Ora digital TV network.
Extremist Muslims have "a desire for a caliphate and to institute that in any way possible, and in particular go after what they consider 'Western norms' - our way of life," she said. "They are not content enough to have their way of looking at the world. They want to put their way on everybody in the world."
Sanchez, who is a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, also said the U.S. "must" destroy radical Muslims who would resort to violence to meet their objectives.
"It's no longer a matter of containing," she said. "It is a matter of eliminating that threat to America, to Americans and to the peace-loving world."
We'll see if her words match her votes.