Some students at Lebanon Valley College, a private liberal arts institution in Pennsylvania, have demanded administrators rename the campus’ Lynch Memorial Hall because of the “racial connotations” associated with the term “lynching,” pennlive.com reported Tuesday.
The building was named after Dr. Clyde A. Lynch, the college’s 11th president who served during the Great Depression and WWII. Lynch raised $55,000 for a physical education facility that took his name and was later converted into classrooms, according to the college’s website.
Student protesters also demanded that the college offer a more diverse curriculum and have its staff members undergo additional sensitivity training, according to the report.
The president of the college’s Black Student Union told pennlive that she thought the demands were “pretty reasonable.”
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should Marshawn Lynch change his last name, too? methinks we’re getting a bit out of hand here.
This is stupid. How do these kids think they are going to function in the real world? If they can find a job after graduation, the experience will be eye-opening. Such delicate flowers.
That’s up there with PETA wanting Fishkill, NY to change its name to “Fishsave.” “Kill” is Dutch for stream, and Lynch is a common name. This kind of pointless oversensitive stuff gives progressives a bad name.
Wait until they get to Toadsuck, Arkansas.
Maybe rename The White House? Sounds racist.