Madeline Bryce / Daily Nexus

In response to growing numbers of students panicking at the mention of m*dterm ex*ms, members of the “Don’t Say It” club on UC Santa Barbara’s campus are trying to make a change.

The club, consisting mostly of linguistics majors, has pushed to rename the triggering phrase to something less harmful to student’s psyche. This is in response to the common knowledge that it is the word itself that makes students so stressed out.

Members of the club have given their insight on the movement. 

“After doing extensive research on words, we think ‘information check’ should be the new phrase adopted by every department at our school,” President Hoot n’ Hollar, a fifth-year word-lover major, said. “These words roll seamlessly off the tongue and are a better description than the previous term in every conceivable way.”

The movement has been named “Information check to showcase knowledge,” with the club having started a petition on change.org. Based on these steps, the adoption of this new term seems inevitable, and has inspired a larger movement. In fact, a phenomenon of changing words has been adopted by unexpected members of the UCSB community, but its implementation is questionable.

Lollie Dart, a second-year mechanical engineering major, explained how her professor started to change terms in class. 

“He was very excited when he learned of the movement and started to change names on assignments. Assignments are now titled things like ‘You won’t pass this,’ and ‘Luck won’t save you now.’ I’m scared every hour of every day,” Dart said.

So m*dterms, even though they remain the same in every capacity, will at least be named differently, allowing for everyone to get more confused of what is expected of them.

Good luck with your information checks this week.

Tiny Tinkle can’t wait for this week to be over.