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Should Calhoun College (christened in honor of pro-slavery politician John C. Calhoun) be renamed?
Yale adopts a new approach to decide whether university properties need new names. Some favor a rule of no renaming at all, some are worried about the excessive 'PC'.
On Friday, a Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming, convened earlier this semester at Yale University, issued its final report. This group was not charged with deciding whether or not to rename Calhoun College, the residential unit christened in 1933 in honor of the influential pro-slavery politician John C. Calhoun, which has been a focus of renewed public controversy in the past year. Instead, the committee produced a framework for any and all future renaming decisions. The Yale Corporation has adopted the principles that the committee put forth, and the university's president, Peter Salovey, has appointed a smaller committee to reconsider the Calhoun case in light of this group's recommendations.
Procedure for Consideration of Renaming Requests
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday December 04 2016, @03:54AM
We can start by renaming Washington DC. I can think of a few more descriptive names.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday December 04 2016, @06:06PM
I'm not sure if DC was named after THE Washington, but assuming it is, I'm not sure you're thinking about him in the correct light.
George Washington was a murderous, whiskey-brewing, gun-running, freedom-loving, anti-government terrorist leader.
The violence waged to birth this country - just like the violence that birthed the Emancipation Proclamation - is being actively, but quietly silenced by a sinister group whose agenda is sedation of the minds of Americans. George Washington is not a figure to forget, but a figure to remember, in these times.