Just think of all those resumes that will have to be updated and all of those diary entries as well. Then they can go back and correct all of the history texts and novels that have or mention Yale. This should be a new industry to ‘unperson’ this institution.
‘I resided at ? (formerly “John C. Calhoun”) while I matriculated at ? (formerly “Yale University”)!’
Query: Will Yale locks need to be renamed?
Somebody ought to dig some dirt on John Harvard....
Here’s a little tidbit from Wikipedia about Leland Stanford ( the University and alma mater of Chelsea Clinton is named after him ):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford#Racism_against_the_Chinese
Racism against the Chinese
The gold strike in California had brought a large influx of newcomers into the territory, including Chinese immigrants. They were persecuted in the gold fields and in small towns and cities, as well because of racial discrimination.
Anti-Chinese sentiment became an official political issue over time. Stanford, as governor, ostensibly supported the prevailing mood in the state, which lobbied for the restriction of Chinese immigration. In a message to the legislature in January 1862, Stanford said, “The presence of numbers of that degraded and distinct people would exercise a deleterious effect upon the superior race.”
His statement was initially received with widespread enthusiasm, and Stanford was lauded as a defender of the white race. Public opinion shifted when it was revealed that Stanford’s Central Pacific Railroad had recruited and imported thousands of Chinese laborers to construct the railway track.