Vanderbilt University’s Student Senate approved a measure on April 3 that called for the renaming of Calhoun Hall and two other buildings with strong ties to the university’s earliest days.
A Vanderbilt University spokesperson declined to comment to Newsweek on the issue of renaming the buildings. The Student Senate at Vanderbilt University approved a bill calling for Calhoun Hall and two other campus buildings to be renamed because of the namesakes' ties to slavery. Google Maps In 2016, when Vanderbilt renamed Confederate Memorial Hall, it paid the Tennessee Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy $1.2 million, the present value of the $50,000 donation that was made to construct and name the building. No institutional funds were used and the sum was paid with gifts from anonymous donors.
Similarly to Garland Hall, McTyeire International House, a 97-person dormitory, was named after a figure central to the university’s earliest years. Methodist Bishop Holland McTyeire was the first president of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust and co-authored a book of three essays titled Duties of Masters to Servants. In his essay, McTyeire described how slaves should be treated, at times citing passages from the Bible to reinforce his point.
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