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Thread #22395   Message #242256
Posted By: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
14-Jun-00 - 05:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: ?Possum College
Subject: ?Possum College
Another offering from my attachment to the bizarre (Have you met the wife?):I offer it with no comment other than the suggestion in the thread title:

Beaver College forced by jokes to change name

TIRED of endless jokes, the board of trustees at the 2,800-student Beaver College in Philadelphia has decided to change its name.

The college president, Bette Landeman, argued that Beaver College "too often elicits ridicule in the form of derogatory remarks pertaining to the rodent, the TV show Leave it to Beaver and the vulgar reference to the female anatomy". College authorities say many students have been put off from applying because of its name. The college was founded in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1853.RtS