Yale University will rename one of its residential colleges, replacing the name of an alumnus remembered for his role as an advocate of slavery with that of an alumna who was a pioneering mathematician and computer scientist who helped transform the way people use technology.
The decision to rename Calhoun College reverses one made last spring, when Yale President Peter Salovey said he did not want to erase history, but confront it and learn from it.
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The Corporation considered alternatives from a short list of the hundreds of names recommended by many students, alumni, faculty and others, and chose Grace Murray Hopper, who had been endorsed by the most people as reflective of Yale’s core values.
Salovey, in an interview, said he was thrilled by the choice of Hopper, who earned her doctorate in mathematics and mathematical physics from Yale in 1934. She left her teaching role at Vassar during World War II to enlist in the U.S. Navy, using math to fight fascist enemies. Her work on the earliest computers and computer languages made it possible to write programs for multiple machines simultaneously, to use word-based languages allowing non-specialists to use computers for the first time and dramatically expanding the ways computers could be used.
We're living the same thing that the patricians of Rome went through when they saw barbarians using the senate and temples of capitolia hill as barns for their pigs.
Austin Adams
>replacing the name of an alumnus remembered for his role as an advocate of slavery You know this is a bullshit article because they aren't telling you why, for years, Yale had a building named after an advocate for slavery. What, do they expect you to believe Yale's leaders just loved slavery?
Obviously this guy did a lot of good stuff and that's why the building was named after him. He just happens to also have been an advocate for slavery because that's the time he was from.
Isaac Sullivan
Haystacks Calhoun is not, nor has he ever been a racist!
Easton Peterson
south african university tier behaviour, if you don't understand it destroy it
Jace Smith
This image is more iconic than it appears. It shows the college age students patting themselves on the back for removing a statue, dead stone, of a man engaged in thought from their campus.
I know the context is that he was a white supremacist but these students never learned that that was the norm back then, most people were racist assholes and that a person isn't the worst thing they believe.
100 years from now, something we think will be seen as abhorrent, maybe out treatment of animals or our disregard for free speech or our treatment of the homeless and all these people are going to be seen as barbarians too. And if any of them donate enough money to have a statue of themselves one day, I hope it is smashed by future university students.
Xavier James
>1981 was 92 years ago
William Carter
I support their protest, it's good that social justice are brought upon these people of the past for their actions. Actions speak louder than words, and they should not limit to themselves with the building, but protest against the systematic racism in America itself.
Joshua Ortiz
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Adam Morgan
if only the sling had broken
Jeremiah Cox
>And if any of them donate enough money to have a statue of themselves one day He literally built the university they are chimping out in, alongside many other bastions of civilization in SA.
Charles Foster
WHAT RUNDOWN ON THE HAYSTACKS MAN
Julian Gray
Discriminating and intolerance of the white man, the 'tolerant' left
> the irony escapes them
Noah Lee
I know it sounds trivial but this is death by a thousand cuts
Austin Ortiz
we need to take down MLK statues.
Charles Gonzalez
>Yale >relevant pick one
Hunter Hall
When I own a business or become a manager or whatever, I will refuse to hire those in higher education beyond a few based colleges.
Dominic Peterson
God, these "women" are ugly shits. Reminds me of my biology teacher; I planned to kill back in the day.
Evan Morris
The city of Washington DC was named after a white slave-owner. Better change its name to Trayvonington.
Adrian White
But other people have done those things too. What made Hopper special, short of being a woman?
Carson Nelson
>What made Hopper special, short of being a woman? Having a vagina. After all, not all women have a vagina in this brave new world of ours.
Logan Diaz
There's something deeply creepy about erasing history in this manner, and for political reasons. It's selfish and ahistorical - it means that the people advocating the name-change want to destroy the past and create a "year zero."
They are zealots just as much as the Khmer Rouge, but fortunately with less power to implement their plans.
Jace White
>When I own a business or become a manager or whatever Faggot, you're too retarded to ever do anything like that. The best thing you can hope for is if your suicide gets coverage on the local news.
Sebastian Kelly
Those look like the same signs in project veritas.
Looks like Soros ran low on funding this protest lel.
Jeremiah Perez
underrated
Anthony Jenkins
These cuckolds care more about the name of a fucking college than blacks dying left and right in inner cities.
Carter Baker
Yes! YES! Eradicate all mentions of and associations with slavery!
Then in a couple generations no one will take them seriously and believe that it existed.
I am certain that our eating of farm factory meat, our use of pets, and quite frankly perhaps eating animals at all (100 years they might have vitro meat) will be looked upon with barbarous contempt just as well.
Parker Williams
This is now /jccag/, John C. Calhoun Appreciation General.
>Be it good or bad, [slavery] has grown up with our society and institutions, and is so interwoven with them that to destroy it would be to destroy us as a people. But let me not be understood as admitting, even by implication, that the existing relations between the two races in the slaveholding States is an evil:–far otherwise; I hold it to be a good, as it has thus far proved itself to be to both, and will continue to prove so if not disturbed by the fell spirit of abolition. I appeal to facts. Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually.
