Dropping “Cabrillo College” leaves high and dry all those companies that followed in the college’s wake, from the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Cabrillo Liquor & Delicatessen or Cabrillo Athletic & Fitness Club. That doesn’t mean it’s always a wise move, or an easy one. Ask anyone who goes by a name that they were not born with. That’s an insistence that today doesn’t have to follow a script that was written yesterday. ![]() Them’s the breaks.īut renaming, that’s a different deal. We got to name dot-com companies and microbrews. One generation got to name rivers and mountains, another cities and roads, another baseball teams and cocktails. If you knew you might one day wake-up to Sprint/T-Mobile College instead of, say, Cesar Chavez College, would that change your view of dropping “Cabrillo”įrom the time Adam named all the animals, every generation has gotten to name something. If you knew you might one day wake up to Sprint/T-Mobile College instead of, say, Cesar Chavez College, would that change your view of dropping “Cabrillo”? Still, who is not fascinated by the seismic ramifications of such a decision?Īnd the new name will matter just as much as the fact that the old one was discarded. Still, it’s apparent that, like many elites and conquistadors of that era, Cabrillo feathered his bed on the slavery and genocide that characterized European colonization of the “New World.”Īs to whether rebranding the college is a good idea or a bad one, I can’t find much relevance in the opinions of anyone who is not an immediate stakeholder - students, faculty, staff, administrators, maybe the neighbors in Aptos. Of course, history is not always reliable, especially when it comes to someone who lived 500 years ago (history can’t even tell us for sure whether Cabrillo was Spanish or Portuguese). This is all necessary because of the much-talked-about campaign to rename Cabrillo College due to what history tells us about the unsavory life and legacy of its namesake. Lookout in the Classroom Open dropdown menuĬredit: Kevin Painchaud / Lookout Santa Cruz.Community Voices Opinion Open dropdown menu.Enjoy Santa Cruz County Open dropdown menu. ![]() WALLACE BAINE: Is it time to jettison the name ‘Cabrillo’? Or, in fact, time to double down on it? - Lookout Santa Cruz Close
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