From the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Washington and Lee University announced Friday that it won’t remove the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the school, but it will change names on campus buildings and symbols while committing $225 million to diversity and inclusion initiatives and a new academic effort to study race relations.
The board of trustees voted 22-6 to keep the school’s name after an 11-month review of issues related to the history and environment of the small liberal arts school in Lexington, Virginia.
The faculty of Washington and Lee voted last July to change the name of the school.
More on the story here.
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Good.
What’s good Private Pyle?
A $225 million bribe? Who is going to pay for that!!!
I have no idea about Washington and Lee’s finances, maybe it has an endowment left over from its status as being a sort of elite school in the past… not so much now…
I looked it up and it does have a billion dollar endowment. It however seems that the academic complex doesn’t ever seem to really use endowments to make school cheaper (with the exception of Harvard).
So I guess the billion dollar endowment is now 775 million…
What business is it of the Williamsburg Republicon Men’s Club?