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posted by martyb on Sunday December 04 2016, @02:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the Watt's-in-a-name? dept.

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.

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Procedure for Consideration of Renaming Requests


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by isostatic on Sunday December 04 2016, @10:14AM

    by isostatic (365) on Sunday December 04 2016, @10:14AM (#436854) Journal

    I thought they were renaming Pennsylvania Acenue to Gropecunt lane.

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