The University of Oregon will rename a dormitory that honored a classics professor who was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan, responding to student protesters who objected to the name. It was the latest university to confront its own history, after a wave of student protests last year amid racial tensions nationally. The University of Oregon’s board of trustees voted unanimously to change the name temporarily to Cedar Hall. President Michael Schill explained in a written statement:

September 9, 2016 ・ From The Washington Post