04 Sep 2020

Latest Cancellation Victim: 70-ton Boulder

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The College Fix:

In collaboration with the Black Student Union at the school, University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders are discussing plans to remove a 70-ton boulder from campus grounds due to it once being called a racist name nearly a century ago.

The boulder had traveled to the region over 10,000 years ago, deposited by ancient pre-Cambrian bedrock drift from Canada, according to its plaque.

In 1925, workers pulled the rock out of the side of a hill on campus and named it “Chamberlin Rock” after Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, a 19th century glaciologist and University of Wisconsin president. The rock was adorned with a plaque commemorating Chamberlin and placed at the university’s Washburn Observatory, where it remains today.

While Chamberlin Rock has been a campus fixture for 95 years, it recently came under fire due to once being described as a “n****rhead” in 1925 as was common geological practice at the time to describe large dark rocks, Madison.com reports.

The Black Student Union at UW is now calling on the university to find an alternate way to represent Chamberlin on campus without the legacy implied by the rock.

“You clearly see what the rock was called and you can’t deny the history. Additionally you can’t deny the way it makes some people feel,” Black Student Union president Nalah McWhorter told Madison.com. “If you’re not going to move the things that are disrespectful to us because other students love it, put something up that us Black and brown students can celebrate.”

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Boligat

When was the last time anyone used the 1925 term for the rock?

Do any students on campus today know what the rock was called back in 1925?

Does anyone who is not a professional nitpicker care?

Not being from Wisconsin I really don’t know the answers to these questions. I’m just trying to get some context here.



Fusil Darne

Madison, WI, is a sticky, unbaked crock of leftist fruitcake dough, that really should be the next site for a Castle Bravo test.
15 megatons would about do it.



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STW

Apparently it wasn’t just this rock but all large, dark rocks. No wonder blacks visit national parks less than others. They get triggered just by going outside.



Strange Daze

[…] Never Yet Melted ï½» Latest Cancellation Victim: 70-ton BoulderIn collaboration with the Black Student Union at the school, University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders are discussing plans to remove a 70-ton boulder from campus grounds due to it once being called a racist name nearly a century ago. The boulder had traveled to the region over 10,000 years ago, deposited by ancient pre-Cambrian bedrock drift from Canada, according to its plaque. […]



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