In the debate underway at Yale University over whether a residential community should continue to bear the name of John C. Calhoun, the fraught question is not simply whether to banish the current title but what to put in its place. The matter has taken on new urgency — at Yale and nationally — after student protest last fall cast a harsh light on the university’s racial climate, epitomized for some by Calhoun College, named in the 1930s for the 1804 graduate of Yale College who provided much of the intellectual foundation for the Confederacy.
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