[zip]

It's not racial, it's historical. period.

[SoDak]

What a load of BS. Yeah, lets just rewrite history to become more 'welcoming'. Idiocy.

[R. Scott]

The state appeals court said Vanderbilt must leave the name intact or pay the group the current value of the $50,000 given when the building was constructed in 1935. It was not immediately clear what that amount would be in today's dollars.

That sounds fair to me. Maybe the anti-Southern gangs could raise the $705,474.45?

Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee cited the need to create a welcoming environment and diversity efforts when he announced in 2002 the school's intention to drop the word.

Obviously “diversity” doesn’t include people with a respect for history.

[knarf]

"Vanderbilt University would violate a decades-old contract if it stripped the word "Confederate" from the name of a dormitory built with the help of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a court ruling released Wednesday said."

Only decades?
Hell ... ain't no slug lawyer worth his whale$h!t if he don't see a contract that can be broken.

It's a shame we'd have to do it, but I guess that's a sure-fire way to accomplish anything ... make it part of a contract.

I'll buy the uniforms as long as we call the football team "The Indians".

[conservativecorner]

It was on the front page of the Tennessean this AM, and I love that VU may have to pay the Daughters of The Confederacy $700,000.00 to take the "Confederate" off a building. Their $50,000.00 donation has grown into a nice nest egg, and I'm sure the org. needs funds in order to honor the heritage of the south and the loved ones who died without the bigotry of the northern states today. I guess what goes around really does come around after all.

[chaosagent]

On top of all this, Vanderbilt did not even originally own this building.

This was a separate school and a separate campus (across the street).

It was on the campus of Peabody College for Women. Confederate Hall was a women's domitory.

My mother went back to school there to get her Master's in Teaching in 1957 and as a 9 year old boy, I stayed there for 3 months while my father was in South America. Everyone on the floor knew I was there but no one every squealed to the authorities.

[Constitution Day]

Seen this? Woo hoo!

[bourbon]

heh.

[gakrak]

Amen and Amen.

[bourbon]

If you looked up "pencil-headed geek" or "stereotypical university chancellor" in the dictionary, I bet you would find a picture of E. Gordon Gee.

[cougar_mccxxi]

I find it an ironic reflection on our present-day society when one can proudly proclaim their hatred for intolerance yet at the same time be intolerant of sybmols that may bring their own cause into a bad light.