In today’s Impromptus, I have an item on Brown University (yeah, I know): whose faculty has voted to change the name of Columbus Day to . . . Fall Weekend.

One reader says, “Hey, don’t they realize that October occurs during Spring in the Southern Hemisphere? Haven’t the aboriginal peoples of Australia suffered enough without this insensitivity?” Another reader says, “Don’t they know that Columbus Day is a big holiday for Italian Americans? Why are they inflicting this pain on a minority group?”

Ay, caramba!