BizJournals: Washington and Lee didn’t change its name. Now no one is happy.
The latest article from The Business Journals (paywall alert) reports on the general feeling amongst the different groups of alumni on either side of the question.
Article: Confederates’ Lost Cause still cripples the South’s economy
While focused on Memphis primarily, this article from MLK50* has ramifications for the entire south and, upon a bit of extrapolation, implications about the future of the University.The following excerpt frames the article nicely.
The New Yorker: After the Lost Cause
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, writing in the New Yorker, ponders politics and culture after the lost cause in. a review article about Client Smith’s “How the Word Is Passed,” began just a few months after the white-nationalist uprising at Charlottesville.
Dabney S. Lancaster to Change Name
Update: WSLS also has the story up now. This provides a bit more detail than the article linked below.
Op-Ed: Remembering Lee Properly
The Miami Herald runs an op-ed by Justin McFarlin, “This Juneteenth, erase Robert E. Lee’s name, but not his history as this nation’s enemy.”
White Supremacy Was on Trial at Washington and Lee University. It Won.
Not Unmindful’s own Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor of law at the School of Law, writes for Slate. Professor Habrouck opens the article with a brief summation of history, unadulterated and not wrapped in any mythmaking before getting to the main point of the article, as the title summarizes.
Opinion: What Washington and Lee has embraced
In an op-ed in the Washington Post in reaction to the announcement by the board of trustees, Colbert I. King lays out the answer to this question very clearly.
How Does a College Decide Whether to Change Its Name?
The Chronicle of Higher Education poses this question in an article by Sarah Brown talking about our situation along side that of Dixie State University in Utah…
Rennard: Disheartened W&L kept its name
In a piece in the Roanoke Times, 2007 alumnus, Mike Rennard reacts to the decision.
BizJournals: Washington and Lee rejects effort to change name, vows to break from Confederate past
Business Journals reponds to the announcement of the decision to retain the name (warning: paywalled)
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