George Washington University committee will explore renaming ‘problematic’ campus buildings - The College Fix

George Washington University committee will explore renaming ‘problematic’ campus buildings - The College Fix:
"Student committee will consider whether buildings are named after ‘bigoted or discriminatory’ individuals
A new committee at an elite Washington, D.C. university will explore the possibility of changing “problematic” building names.
Amid a flurry of iconoclasm aimed at Civil War and other early American symbols, students at George Washington University are forming a committee to examine the backgrounds of people for whom buildings on campus are named in order to determine “if individuals with bigoted or discriminatory views are being honored on campus,” The GW Hatchet reports.
...Earlier this year, Yale University renamed its Calhoun College due to its namesake’s slave-owning past.
In January, meanwhile, the University of Michigan rolled out “a process to rename buildings” named after those who “supported slavery or discrimination.”"
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