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Stanford has renamed campus spaces to stop honoring David Starr Jordan because of his eugenics advocacy and other bigoted views: https://news.stanford.edu/2020
by philipkglass 3y ago
Stanford has renamed campus spaces to stop honoring David Starr Jordan because of his eugenics advocacy and other bigoted views:
https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/07/jordan-agassiz/ https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/07/jordan-agassiz/
You can read the report on him, commissioned and published by Stanford, that went into making this decision:
"Reports Of The Advisory Committee On Renaming Jordan Hall And Removing The Statue Of Louis Agassiz"
https://campusnames.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/10/Jordan-report.pdf https://campusnames.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/14...
Stanford has already acknowledged the ugly views of its founder and stopped honoring him. Posting a battle-cry like this on a story that is only tangentially about the history of Stanford seems likely to hijack discussion.
- 29athrowaway 3y agoSo some random hall was renamed and now everything is good. History is fixed and all damage is undone. Phew, good to know.
- ekianjo 3y agoAre they going to change the school name and burn all papers that contain the name Stanford for good mesure ? Otherwise seems like a half measure