Couple more College hot button items for your reading pleasure:
Hundreds of Yale professors protest decision to keep Calhoun College name http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27986/
(guess we shouldn't tell anyone that at Clemson, "Calhoun College" is the Honors College, and the land that is now Clemson University is the former Fort Hill owned by the Calhouns and eventually Thomas Green Clemson who married into the Calhouns. The main property, house and some secondary structures are preserved in the center of campus.
Cornell officially recommends ‘Plantations’ name change: ‘Botanic Gardens’ http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28657/
Princeton University president: Woodrow Wilson mural should be removed http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25184/
Confederate symbols at five universities targeted for removal http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25184/
Which includes Clemson's clocktower, named Tillman Hall named after a SC Governor, US Senator who had a key role in the founding of the University. (He also was a card carrying white supremacist unapologetically linked to murders and lynchings of blacks.)
One more:
OKLAHOMA CITY — Duke University has filed a $9.9 million claim against the estate of former Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon for pledges the Duke alumnus made that the university says were unpaid at the time of his death in a fiery highway crash.
The claim, which the Durham, North-Carolina-based school filed Aug. 12 in Oklahoma County District Court, is among several totaling hundreds of millions of dollars that seek part of the estate. McClendon was one of the founders of the Oklahoma City-based petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company and part owner of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder.
McClendon, 56, was killed March 2 when his SUV smashed head-on into a bridge wall at nearly 80 mph a day after McClendon was indicted by a federal grand jury for alleged bid rigging.
Duke’s claim is for “multiple charitable pledges” it says the energy magnate made to the school prior to his death for a variety of programs and projects including work-study scholarships, the football program, an auditorium and a student plaza. The total pledge amount was $18.75 million, of which about $9.9 million remains unpaid, according to the claim.
Mike Schoenfeld, Duke’s vice president of public affairs and government relations, said in an emailed statement Thursday that the claim was a “routine transaction” and was submitted after the university received a notice from McClendon’s estate to submit a claim for the unpaid portion of earlier pledges. McClendon graduated from Duke University in 1981 with a degree in history.
“It is common for the executors of large and complex estates to solicit claims from charitable organizations with pledges that were not fulfilled at the time of the donor’s passing,” the statement said.
