Look I don’t care if you want to change the names of your buildings. I just don’t agree with caving to intimidation by a small group of people because you don’t have a spine, without any consultation with the whole of the school and the alumni. And it gives more fire to this ridiculous intimidation technique.
Via Red Alert:
Georgetown University has become the next campus to give into protests. The Jesuit university has agreed to change the names of buildings named after presidents who owned and sold slaves to pay off the university’s debt in the 1830s.
The Washington Post reported on calls for the name change from a protest Thursday at Georgetown’s Red Square, as well as a sit-in Friday afternoon which had, at its peak, 50 students who sat outside President John J. DeGioia’s office.
One of the organizers, senior Queen Adesuyi, mentioned “the momentum” from other university protests. She also shared how the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation DeGioia had put together, which also recommended the name changes, was a move to pacify protesters while he stalled on the decision.