university trustees know yale corporation vote favor rename friday reverse decision last year keep name keep name defend way confront rather paper legacy slavery.the change go effect time 2017-2018 academic year john c. calhoun legacy white supremacist national leader passionately promote slavery positive good fundamentally conflict yale mission value president peter salovey say message send yale community saturday say depictions college celebrate plantations old south suggest calhoun honor part support slavery spite it.yale among number colleges grapple honor histories without offend modern sensibilities vanderbilt university last year say would pay 1.2 million remove word confederate residence hall facade princeton university say would keep woodrow wilson name school public international affairs residential college increase discussion former president support segregation wsjif yale concern promote diversity work erase sign slavery rename calhoun college famous black alumni us supreme court justice clarence thomas tradition yale name colleges prominent decease alumni ones contribute somehow human race morse college instance name samuel morse eponymous morse code.yale feel immense pressure rename calhoun minority figure yale decease minority alumni one leap mind someone suggest levi jackson think nice idea jackson well know outside yale circle doubt today students idea is.it seem likely yale might jettison dead requirement turn case clarence thomas easily yale prominent black alum even undergrad.i joke course would proud come leave would sooner burn calhoun grind let name black conservative go show race power politics.one think elihu yale apparently slave trader among things soon activists set sight rename entire university naked dollar yale remove name democrat white supremacist passionate supporter slavery res college…why rename famous black alum justice clarence thomas