Current Events > Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson's Name From School

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/princeton-remove-woodrow-wilson-name-school.html

Princeton Universitys school of public policy will no longer carry the name of former President Woodrow Wilson and neither will a residential college. The school, which since 1948 has been known as the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will now simply be called the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. The university will also remove the former presidents name from one of its residential colleges that will now be known as First College. That name recognizes its its status as the first of the residential colleges that now play an essential role in the residential life of all Princeton undergraduates, according to a statement issued by the university on Saturday.

The Princeton University Board of Trustees voted Friday on the naming changes a mere four years after they had voted to maintain Wilsons name despite calls by students for changes. The meeting where the vote took place was held to discuss ways in which Princeton could oppose racism. The universitys trustees concluded that Wilsons racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school whose scholars, students, and alumni must be firmly committed to combatting the scourge of racism in all its forms, notes the statement.

In a letter to the universitys community, Princetons president, Christopher L. Eisgruber, made clear that the move wasnt just about using todays values to judge history because the former presidents racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time. Wilson, who was president of the university form 1902 to 1910 before he became U.S. president in 1913 segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice, Eisgruber wrote. He not only acquiesced in but added to the persistent practice of racism in this country, a practice that continues to do harm today. It marked a stark change from April 2016, when the universitys board of trusteed voted to keep the former presidents name on campus buildings and programs.

Dean Cecelia Rouse said in a statement she supported the name change as well as the decision not to name the school after anybody else. I have often been asked if not Wilson, then who should the School be named for? I am glad we are not going down that path, she wrote. Connecting the School to a certain person signals that the School stands for much of what the honoree believes. I feel that for a policy school to be the best, it has to be a place where a true diversity of backgrounds and beliefs exist.

Students who had organized behind an organization called Change WWS and had sent a letter earlier in the week calling for the renaming told the Daily Princetonian that they appreciate the Universitys swift response. But they also said that was just the tip of the iceberg. In an Instagram post, the organizers said that the renaming is one small part of our list of demands.

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Good
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Good, fuck that filthy garbage stain of a human.
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All these changing of names and things is great, I hope to see more

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Good. Fuck that guy.

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PatrickMahomes posted...

In an Instagram post, the organizers said that the renaming is one small part of our list of demands.

Give an inch, etc.

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Woody removal

Wilion was the original neocon, fuck him.

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God bless
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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Give an inch, etc.

imagine defending a president who was in the KKK
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ThisGuyAreSick posted...

imagine defending a president who was in the KKK

It always starts with reasonable demands to soften you up. Then it gets silly.

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Or just imagine thinking that people who want structural racism to be dismantled should be satisfied that an institution changes the name of a subdivision.
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what "silly demand" were you potentially afraid of from people that started off by being against KKK presidents
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ThisGuyAreSick posted...

Good

DeadBankerDream posted...

Good, fuck that filthy garbage stain of a human.

FortuneCookie posted...

Good. Fuck that guy.

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I think this might be the one that unites most parts of the political spectrum. Wilson is virulently hated by both the left and the right at this point.

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