>>> FROM HUFFINGTON POST Y FACEBOOK:
THIS is a KICK in Thomas S. Kenan III's flaccid DORK -- LOL!!! (My family founded UNC and Tom and his close relations virtually OWN it -- as well as Duke!!!)
UNC-Chapel Hill Students Want School To Rename Building Honoring KKK Leader
Students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill want the school's trustees to rename Saunders Hall, a building on campus currently titled in honor of a former Ku Klux Klan leader.
UNC-Chapel Hill, considered the nation's oldest public university, named the building for William L. Saunders in 1922. Saunders was a UNC alum and a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
But as the university readily admits on its website, Saunders "became known as the chief organizer of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina and Chapel Hill," and led a "terror campaign" intended to upend Reconstruction in the 1860's, according to the Daily Tar Heel.
A few years later, in 1874, Saunders became a UNC trustee.
"I want people to know about how their English building was funded by a person who terrorized black people because he just didn’t like them," Mariah Monsanto, a UNC senior, told the Daily Tar Heel.
Students are gathering signatures on a petition to change the name of the building and will present it to the Board of Trustees at their meeting in May. They held a rally on campus last week as well, also demanding a plaque be placed on the building to "remind us of UNC's white supremacist history."
In a statement from Dr. Lowry Caudill, chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, provided to The Huffington Post, the school said it remains open to discussing changes with the students.
"We encourage them to share their research and thoughts with us," Caudill said. "I know Vice-Chair Alston Gardner has had conversations with students on this topic and we look forward to hearing from them. It's important to note that the University has a policy on renaming campus facilities, which would be our guideline in any such conversation."
The policy states:
If the benefactor's or honoree's reputation changes substantially so that the continued use of that name may compromise the public trust, dishonor the University's standards, or otherwise be contrary to the best interests of the University, the naming may be revoked. However, caution must be taken when, with the passage of time, the standards and achievements deemed to justify a naming action may change and observers of a later age may deem those who conferred a naming honor at an earlier age to have erred. Namings should not be altered simply because later observers would have made different judgments.
Students don't appear to think there's room for much caution in this case, declaring in a Facebook post for their rally the honor for Saunders is an "ongoing presence of white supremacy embedded in our campus geography."
>>> ADDED LATER: from here: http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2014/04/students-call-on-trustees-to-rename-saunders-hall
Much of the following article uses a sort of "high-falutin scholar-speak", what they mean about the geography is simply that the buildings and perhaps plazas, etc., are named for Confederates.
This should be no surprise, although when I last visited the campus (shortly after getting very familiar with the 1967 original book THE KENAN FAMILY which shows the later-proven FAKE Stuart ancestry and all the ALLIED FAMILIES, all the UNC buildings I saw were named for blood relatives with different surnames (the Kenan Family produces TONS of homosexuals and other males who marry and have no children), or ALLIED FAMILIES. I saw only one or two exceptions.
The 1999 edition of THE KENAN FAMILY deletes all the old-country ancestry -- and ALLIED FAMILIES are gone too.
Since the Kenan Family was the world's largest supplier of naval stores before the American Revolution with several properties with more than 300 slaves each, they spread out and grew vast wealth particularly in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas (and Florida, not yet a state), so that by election or money influence, they DOMINATED the Legislatures in those states -- GUARANTEEING the South would secede!!!
Willie Wright, a doctoral candidate in the department of geography, said campus infrastructures are more than what they appear to students.
“They aren’t just places where we go to study English or social science,” he said. “They’re spaces that are named after individuals who perpetuated certain types of domination, particularly racial domination.”
And Saunders Hall isn’t the only campus building with a conflicted racial past. The Silent Sam memorial, Aycock Residence Hall, Hamilton Hall and Daniels Student Stores have all been questioned for their associations with white supremacist leaders or ideals.
Moore said the physical landscape of the University is not in tune with current cultural values.
Taffye Clayton, UNC’s vice provost for diversity and multicultural affairs, said cultivating an inclusive campus climate is important at UNC.
“What we know as diversity and inclusion practitioners is that organizations and leaders must work consistently to integrate the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion into the fabric,” she said.
But student Parker Martin, a co-founder of the UNC Minority Experience project, said the University has a tendency to paint a perfect picture of diversity when, in reality, minorities may have a different experience at UNC than other students.
The project posted a video on YouTube detailing the experiences of black UNC students, as well as a brief commentary on how minority students perceive certain campus buildings.
And there is much more at the above link.
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