Pitt Coed makes finals of Jeopardy College tournament (campus, students)

[Geeo]

Watched a bit last night and was impressed by all of the contestants, and especially the Pitt student. It's always a thrill when even I know some of the answers. What really gets me is that I bomb when they have the 12 year-old contestants.

[Sciulli]

She went all in with Final Jeopardy last night. She's got the eye of the panther HAHAHAHA

[Merge]

Originally Posted by erieguy

Great for her.

Pretty sure the term co-ed hasn't gone out of style and nor do the co-eds have issue with the term.

Hmm.. I wasn't aware that "style" extended all the way out to SW Butler county.


I haven't heard anyone refer to "co-eds" since, like, 1985. But I don't doubt that you hear it a lot among your crowd.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by Merge

Hmm.. I wasn't aware that "style" extended all the way out to SW Butler county.


I haven't heard anyone refer to "co-eds" since, like, 1985. But I don't doubt that you hear it a lot among your crowd.

You just need to get out more. You get the best of both worlds without being confined to one area. There's a whole big world outside the city.

[theta_sigma]

I have worked at universities for the past 12 years (and my dad has been a professor at one of them all my life) and I have heard female students referred to as "co-eds" exactly never.

[RogersParkTransplant]

Originally Posted by theta_sigma

I have worked at universities for the past 12 years (and my dad has been a professor at one of them all my life) and I have heard female students referred to as "co-eds" exactly never.

Right -- it's not offensive, just hilariously outdated. Pitt has had women since 1895, and it's a term I associate with the colleges that only brought women on board in the 1960s, so it just struck me as silly.

I'm sure I wouldn't get in trouble if my dean heard me refer to female students as co-eds, but there would be some laughter, some raised eyebrows, and some friendly suggestions to knock it off.

[gg]

Coed = a female student at a co-educational institution.

So it is some old term. I wouldn't use it, but would make such a huge deal out of it. Maybe the OP is 80 years old? Don't know.

[RogersParkTransplant]

I don't think anyone is making a "huge deal" out of it, just pointing out that it's a little weird, and sounds condescending. There's plenty of threads where we discuss whether it's ever okay to call someone a yinzer; we might as well add that referring to women at co-educational institutions as coeds, with the presumption that their male counterparts are simply called students, is patronizing at best. No matter how old the OP might be, Pitt had women enrolled as students before ANY of us were born.

[erieguy]

It's unfortunately become an extremely sensitive world for some, but I can't imagine any female student being offended at the term co-ed. I do know my niece doesn't as I asked her and she replied "what???". After I explained it her reply was "are you serious?"

[eschaton]

Yinz have been successfully trolled yet again by Mr. Spam.