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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