"There's been all sorts of suggestions mentioned, from renaming squares to renaming roads to renaming buildings, all sorts of different things.
Consumers boycott products advertised on television shows they don't like, and alumni pressure universities to rename buildings paid for by disgraced donors.
Renaming buildings at Georgetown or Princeton, or altering the Harvard crest, isn't some overzealous request for a safe space, but rather the equivalent of cutting the heart out of the body of white supremacy.
The Oct. 26 issue reports that there is a committee to rename buildings, it solicits suggestions for names, and PAW will accept suggestions and forward them to the committee.
There have been efforts to rename buildings, remove images, and abandon symbols associating schools with major historic figures who were also proponents of slavery, segregation, or other forms of racism.
After a year of discussions on campus which included historians, students, faculty and others, trustees voted to make three changes to help the telling of the school's 221-year history: Stop renaming buildings for 16 years, begin new curatorial and educational efforts, and rename Saunders Hall.
Fitzsimons, professor of management and organizations, and of psychology and neuroscience, served as vice chair of the Commission on Memory and History, which in 2017 developed the principles that were put in place to advise on formal requests to rename buildings.
If buildings can be renamed because of money, shouldn't we consider the possibility of renaming buildings and other sites on ethico-historical grounds?
Several American Universities have come under similar pressure in recent years to rename buildings named after known white supremacists, such as Duke University's former Charles Aycock undergraduate dormitory.
Protests were held, demands were made and some students were successful like at Georgetown where students successfully got administrators to rename buildings that once honored slaveowners.
