Campus leaders said that Mr. and Ms., as well as Mrs. may be offensive. Louise Lennihan, interim provost, said that the use of gendered salutations, as well as references when employees of the school corresponds with students, prospective students, as well as third parties.
Lennihan said that the ban applies to all types of correspondence, including all parts of any letter, such as mailing labels, bills, invoices and other types of reports or forms.
A school’s spokeswoman, Tanya Domi, said that the policy aims to work within a regulatory framework in order to comply with the title IX principles.
Judge Andrew Napolitano spoke on “The Real Story” and he stated that administrators misread the Title IX federal statue, which regulates higher education that receives state dollars or federal dollars.
Napolitano said that they think they’re doing the right thing, but CUNY is owned by the government, which is regulated by the First Amendment, as is everything that it owns.
Napolitano added that the university can drop Mr. and Mrs. in official documents, but they cannot punish employees and students from using Mr. and Mrs. because it is their First Amendment right to do it.
