U Of Oregon May Meet BLM Demand To Rename Buildings
Blake Neff 8-11-16
The University of Oregon (UO) appears ready to acquiesce to Black
Lives Matter by renaming two buildings on campus named for men who held
racist views.
In November, 2015, the UO Black Student Task Force presented a list of 12 demands to administrators at the school. The demands included requiring all students to take an ethnic studies class, creating special black-only scholarships, and hiring more black professors in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines.
But the top demand on the list, and one UO has actually moved
substantively to meet, was to rename certain buildings on UO’s flagship
Eugene campus. In January, UO administrators created a committee to
review the fate of Deady Hall, named for Matthew Deady, and Dunn Hall,
named for Frederick Dunn. Deady was a judge and politician who helped
create Oregon’s state Constitution, which barred all black people from
the state. Dunn was a prominent professor in the early 20th century, who
also was an officer with the Ku Klux Klan during its 1920s heyday.
“Allowing buildings to be named after [KKK] members who support [racist] views is in direct conflict with the university’s goal [to] keep black students safe on campus,” the November demand list said.
In November, 2015, the UO Black Student Task Force presented a list of 12 demands to administrators at the school. The demands included requiring all students to take an ethnic studies class, creating special black-only scholarships, and hiring more black professors in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines.
“Allowing buildings to be named after [KKK] members who support [racist] views is in direct conflict with the university’s goal [to] keep black students safe on campus,” the November demand list said.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/11/u-of-oregon-may-meet-blm-demand-to-rename-buildings/#ixzz4HEYcfqV9
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