Talk:AHANA

This article was nominated for deletion on 10 January 2013 (UTC). The result of the discussion was merge to Boston College#AHANA.

This article was nominated for deletion on 23 August 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

"Boston College prefers the ethnic-sounding acronym "AHANA," which stands for African, Hispanic, Asian, Native American."[edit]

If so, it prefers using the word which is in fact what the page is called and which the trademark is registered as... as opposed to what exactly? ALANA? This needs to be made explicit; as it is, that free-standing sentence adds nothing ('Boston uses the term AHANA' - this, we already know from the other paragraph) and barely even makes sense in the context of the article, at least from the perspective of someone who was previously unfamiliar with the word in general. Maybe there's some hidden semantics I'm missing as an outsider on the subject of race relations in the USA? Sordyne (talk) 18:38, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i think they did indeed mean "as opposed to ALANA" but it is not put well. i had the same reaction you did.

i am also a bit curious as to whether there's been any PUSHBACK to the term? what about minorities who are not among the magic 4 -- what are they, chopped liver? 66.105.218.14 (talk) 08:39, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

April 2010[edit]

Removed from references section on article page, seems irrelevant to article. There since 5 April 2009. 1 Year + !!

"Ahana also is a word of Sanskrit origin having two meanings; first, the one who comes in the day and second, the one who can not be destroyed."

--220.101.28.25 (talk) 19:59, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]