When a student at the University of Texas learned about alarming statements made by a prominent mathematician, he proposed renaming the building after someone he said better embodied the school's values: a fictional character.
“With the construction of RLM, we honored a man whose contributions to society and the university were certainly worth honoring,” University of Texas at Austin student Vikram Sundaram wrote on Facebook. “A man who had dedicated his life to the advancement of mathematics. A man who was also, plainly put, a racist and a bigot.”
In the novel, Sundaram said Malcolm stood for “caution and discipline.” In the big-screen adaptation of the story, his role is to warn people as to why power and knowledge shouldn’t be wielded carelessly.University of Texas at Austin Director of Media Relations & Issues Management, J.B. Bird, told Newsweek that it Sundaram’s proposal was an “interesting idea” and joked that the school owes Malcolm for revoking his tenure in the sequel The Lost World.
On the Malcolm Over Moore campaign website, creators acknowledged the outrageousness of the proposal and pointed out that the point wasn’t to rename the building after Malcolm, but to rename it after someone who reflects the school’s values.
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