Amid racial tensions, public university spent $23,400 to create report on renaming buildings - The College Fix

Amid racial tensions, public university spent $23,400 to create report on renaming buildings - The College Fix:
"The University of Oregon spent $23,400 to create a report used to determine whether the public university should rename two campus buildings amid racial tensions, public records recently obtained by The College Fix show.
The university paid three historians a total of $22,500 — $7,500 each — to compile the 34-page report, the records show; another $897.29 went to reimburse one of the historians for travel expenses.
As a result of the report, President Michael Schill last fall stripped a campus building of one name, Frederick Dunn, while keeping another building named after Matthew Deady.
The process to rename Dunn Hall is still underway and four name finalists were announced this month. Deady Hall remains.
The 2016 report was commissioned after the UO Black Student Task Force demanded administrators rename the two buildings. 
Deady was a founding father of the University of Oregon and the state, as well as a federal judge. Dunn was a professor and one-time Ku Klux Klan leader.
One of 13 demands from the task force, its members declared the university would “change the names of all of the KKK-related buildings on campus” and “Deady Hall will be the first building to be renamed.”..."
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