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College Formerly Known As Calhoun Renamed for Grace Hopper

Posted on February 11, 2017October 1, 2022 by DOWN Editors

Today, the Yale corporation announced that the name of Calhoun College will be changed to honor instead the legacy of Grace Murray Hopper ‘30 M.A, ‘34 Ph.D. The decision was made yesterday during the Corporation’s scheduled February meeting. The perception of Calhoun’s historical legacy as one that promoted slavery as a “positive good” was a…

Thinking About the Report of the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming

Posted on December 13, 2016October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

by Sohum Pal It may be that we are trapped in some self-parody of university bureaucracy. That seemed the case to me when I opened President Salovey’s email this past Friday, which stated that after reviewing the Report of the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming, Salovey had appointed yet another committee to reexamine the…