Yale Committee Could Prompt More Talk About Racist Names on Campuses

Even if Yale University doesn’t rename its Calhoun College, it may have set itself up to head off further protests over racist names.  After months of debates over the college and its long-deceased honoree, John C. Calhoun, Yale isn’t saying yes or no to changing the controversial name.  Instead, the president, Peter Salovey, formed the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming, to set guidelines for when the university should change the names of its buildings and how it should be done.