'Recent Events' Catching On
SATIRE
February 28, 2010
In light of what it describes as a "tastefully and tactfully enabling and ennobling" handling of the gay issue at Yeshiva University, the organization formally known as Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI) has replaced the word "Gay" in its title with the phrase "Recent Events." It will now be known as Recent Events Straight Alliance Network International. Explaining the name change, public spokesperson Levi Ticus stated, "We've been looking for a long time for a better word to describe homosexuals. The old word was a problem – put briefly, it was sooo gay. Now we have a tasteful way of describing homosexuals without offending the public." Aside from RESANI, several other organizations have adopted the change, including the Gay Liberation Front (now RELF), as well as YU's own Tolerance Club (YUREC).
Asked about his reaction to the name changes inspired by his word choice, YU President Richard Joel replied wittily if unitelligibly, "Let them call it recent, but they must remain decent!" RIETS dean Rabbi Yonah Reiss, however, took a more negative tone, noting, "We must always remember that recent events are not meant to be discussed in a Yeshiva."
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