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By Isaac Stanley-Becker
April 27 at 11:49 PM
... The university has decided not to strip Calhouns name from the college, so named in the 1930s, though it will drop the title master used for the faculty members who head Yales residential communities, following similar moves at Princeton and Harvard. Yale will also name its two new residential colleges, set to open in the fall of 2017, after Benjamin Franklin, the inventor and founding father, and Anna Pauline Murray, a lawyer and civil rights activist and the first black woman ordained as a priest in the Episcopalian church ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/27/yale-keeps-the-calhoun-name-despite-racial-concerns-but-ditches-the-master-title/
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)THE YALE DAILY NEWS
APR 28, 2016
... Pauli Murray LAW 65, a queer woman of color and civil rights activist, certainly earns her place in the pantheon of Yale alumni. We would be proud to call ourselves members of a college that celebrates her steadfast commitment to justice for all people. However, this news is difficult to celebrate wholeheartedly Murray College, a symbol of progress and equality, will stand next to Franklin College, whose name seems to have carried a $250 million price tag ...
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/04/28/news-view-our-missed-opportunity/
Skinner
(63,645 posts)I was one of the 15,000 people who signed the petition to rename Calhoun.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Now it's some kind of "learning moment" or experience or whatever, according to Salovey. What a load.
Skinner
(63,645 posts)The point of having a "learning moment" is to actually, you know, learn from it.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I'm sure he got plenty of earfuls from alums who give big money to the school.
Skinner
(63,645 posts)And that's the reason it hasn't changed.
I sure wouldn't have any pull whatsoever. I don't have big money, and even if I did I wouldn't give it to Yale. I enjoyed my time there, but the idea of giving something ostensibly called a "charitable contribution" to a multi-billion-dollar enterprise that overwhelmingly serves the elite seems obscene to me. There are so many other causes that actually need the help.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)The very rich in Greenwich gave in this order: prep school, college, then the other nonprofits that were their favorite charities. They want to get their kids in the best situation to carry on their wealth. The handing down of great fortunes preserves their family perches at the top of the wealth in our country so it cannot reach anybody else.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Skinner
(63,645 posts)So no.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Of course the word is embarrassing enough for the female masters and linked to the slavery thing, it would forever be a larger stain.
But most people who may know Yale's name won't care about that detail and probably will never know it. Why should they?