The diversity enforcers want to name the dorms after Native Americans using the Arapaho language. One building was going to be named “Nowoo3 Hall.”
Via Daily Caller:
The University of Colorado-Boulder is renaming two dormitories after Native American chiefs, but it has angered some for choosing the English translations of their names rather than the original but hard-to-pronounce indigenous versions.
Last November, the university agreed to call the dorms Nowoo3 Hall and Houusoo Hall, after Native American Arapaho chiefs who are more commonly known by their English translations as Chief Niwot and Chief Little Raven, respectively.
CU spokesman Ryan Huff told the Daily Camera that university officials changed their minds about using the Arapaho language because the English versions “will be more easily recognized and referenced to by students, visitors and emergency responders.”
Indeed, Nowoo3 is pronounced “Na-waath” and Houusoo is pronounced “Ho-sah,” according to the paper.