Political correctness in college classrooms is so pervasive that you can’t even avoid it in a computer programming class. In one such class at the University of California at Berkeley, students are asked to write a program that can play checkers. But students are told not to use the term “king,” which normally refers to a piece that has reached the opposite end of the board:

If a piece reaches the opposite side, it becomes an AAP (Additionally Abled Piece — actually, it’s called a “king”, but we decided to eschew sexist and monarchist nomenclature) and can move both backwards and forwards along the diagonals.

No, this isn’t a parody. This is what life is actually like in college these days.

(Hat tip: John J. Miller.)