[BnBlFlag]

The Carpet bagger contingent which now dominates the UT Administration is now at it again. The now President of the University is from UC-Berkely. That tells you all you need to know about him. (And the Chronicle Editorial Board is no better. No one defends the Klan but we're talking about a totally different era. They're real goal is to remove all Confederate Statues from the campus and wipe out all mention of the Confederacy while they're at it. So far they've been unsuccessful at that so they're going after an easier target. Then they'll be back for more.

[BnBlFlag]

wd - Looks like Ole Miss has a little competition going to see who can erase the Confederacy from their schools first!
SB - Southern Heritage Ping!

[evets]

Robert C. Byrd Academic and Technology Center
Robert C. Byrd addition to the lodge at Oglebay Park, Wheeling
Byrd Aerospace Technology Center
Robert C. Byrd Bridge between Huntington and Chesapeake, Ohio
Robert C. Byrd Cancer Research Center
Robert C. Byrd Clinical Addition to the veteran’s hospital in Huntington
Robert C. Byrd Community Center, Pine Grove
Robert C. Byrd Community Center in the naval station, Sugar Grove
Robert C. Byrd Drive, from Beckley to Sophia (Byrd’s hometown)
Robert C. Byrd Expressway, U.S. 22 near Weirton
Robert C. Byrd Federal Building
Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse
Robert C. Byrd Freeway
Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
Robert C. Byrd Hardwood Technologies Center, near Princeton
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia
Robert C. Byrd High school in Bridgeport
Robert C. Byrd Highway
Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex, Mineral County
Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarships
Robert C. Byrd Industrial Park, Hardy County
Robert C. Byrd Institute in Charleston
Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing
Robert C. Byrd Library and Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center
Robert C. Byrd Life Long Learning Center
Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam
Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center
Robert C. Byrd Rural Health Center
Robert C. Byrd Scholastic Recognition Award
Byrd Science Center, Shepherd University
Robert C. Byrd Technology Center at Alderson-Broaddus College
Robert C. Byrd United Technical Center
Robert C. Byrd Visitor Center at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park

[Common Sense 101]

As always liberals use incrementalism to achieve their ends, and as usual, demonstrate their utter hypocrisy. Any similar calls in West Virginia to change the name on thousands of taxpayer-funded momunents to the longest-serving KKK member in the Senate?

[Da Coyote]

I’d agree to a dorm name change if the college adds a “Walk of Sleaze” to dishonor Sharpton-loon, and the “Idol of Idiocy” in commemoration of Jesse Jack-O-lope.

[Altura Ct.]

So what shall we call the Washington DC?, Washington Monument? The Jefferson Memorial etc?

We are eat up with stupid.

[VRWCmember]

What’s the big deal? I’m sure it was just a fleeting association with the Klan for a couple of good ole boys who were just tryin’ to get elected.

[VRWCmember]

UT should hire slick willie to come down and give a speech to rehablitate the Simkins image and the controversy would go away.

[Maceman]

He and his brother were members of the Ku Klux Klan during a period in which it terrorized black communities through lynchings and shootings and dozens of murders.

In other words, they were Democrats.

[Fresh Wind]

My freshman dorm was named “Drinker Hall”.

How true that turned out to be.

[r9etb]

professor Simkins boasted of participating in the Klan's infamous night rides: "The immediate effect upon the Negro was wonderful," he wrote, "the flitting to and fro of masked horses and faces struck terror to the race."

Is that really the sort of guy you want to honor...?

[PeterPrinciple]

The reason? Simkins was not only a legal educator at UT from 1899-1929. He and his brother were members of the Ku Klux Klan during a period in which it terrorized black communities through lynchings and shootings and dozens of murders.

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Stupid people get their history from the movies. The KKK was against a lot of things......................

[nuke rocketeer]

I spent 2 years in Simkins Hall when I was a student at UT.

Shame on them. Now they will not get my alumni donation .....again.

[dalereed]

“UT responded by instituting admission tests designed to exclude a disproportionate number of African-American applicants.”

Admission tests designed to exclude a disproportionate number of stupid applicants.

[El Gato]

The reason? Simkins was not only a legal educator at UT from 1899-1929. He and his brother were members of the Ku Klux Klan during a period in which it terrorized black communities through lynchings and shootings and dozens of murders.

They should change the name... right after everything with Robert K. Byrd's name on it has it's name changed. But until then..

NOT!

[I Buried My Guns]

"...UT's troubled racial history..."

So says you, author. I don't find any of it troubling. What I do find troubling is the leftist media constantly attempting to frame the debate.

[Arrowhead1952]

Fox News just had a blip on this. The new name is “Waller Hall” since it is close to Waller Creek.

[a fool in paradise]

Time to take the name of Robert Byrd, Klansman and KKK recruiter, off of all of those civic properties in West Virginia.

[Republic of Texas]

I didn’t know UT had a dorm named after Robert Byrd.