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Vanderbilt pays $1.2 million to remove the word ‘Confederate’ from dorm
« on: August 16, 2016, 08:42:53 pm »
Vanderbilt pays $1.2 million to remove the word ‘Confederate’ from dorm
By Rebecca Downs | August 16, 2016 | Comments

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Following Yale University, Georgetown University, and the trend of politically correct college campuses, Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced on Monday that Confederate Memorial Hall would be renamed to simply Memorial Hall.

The university will have to return a donation from the Tennessee Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to remove the word ‘Confederate’ from the name. Vanderbilt will pay $1.2 million in present day value for the $50,000 the group contributed in 1933.

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Re: Vanderbilt pays $1.2 million to remove the word ‘Confederate’ from dorm
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2016, 08:51:16 pm »
But kowtowing to BLM is perfectly okiley-dokiley.
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