SUNY-New Paltz approves new names for college buildings
The names are being changed because the buildings' namesakes, the founding families of the town, owned slaves prior to slavery's ...
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Present-day Hasbroucks react to the new names for SUNY-New Paltz college buildings
“I understand the sensitivity of the topic, but redefining history in your own image is not the answer,” said Roland ...
SUNY New Paltz council recommends new names for college buildings
Six campus buildings that carried the name of the town's original Huguenot settlers, who owned slaves, will be named for ...
SUNY New Paltz to remove names of town’s slaveholding founders from campus buildings
Five buildings named for the town's Huguenot founders will have their names changed this year. The new names haven't been ...
SUNY New Paltz president: Buildings named for slaveholding families should be renamed
“These buildings were named for the original Huguenot patentees who were the first European settlers in New Paltz,” wrote college ...
SUNY New Paltz debates buildings named for slaveholding families
Several students expressed discomfort, one likening it to being Jewish and living in “Hitler Hall.” Members of the community tended ...
Poll: Should SUNY New Paltz rename buildings because namesakes owned slaves?
The university's Diversity and Inclusion Council will take up the question this year. What do you think?
New Paltz’s founding families were slaveholders; should their names be stricken from college buildings?
In a response to a petition calling for a change to the name of the campus dining hall to honor ...
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