Students at Lebanon Valley College are asking administrators to change the name of "Lynch Memorial Hall," because of racial overtones.

(Published Wednesday, Dec 9, 2015)
Students at a small Pennsylvania college are demanding that administrators rename a building called “Lynch Memorial Hall'' because of the racial overtones of the word “lynch.''

The building is named after Clyde A. Lynch, who was president of Lebanon Valley College from 1932 until his death in 1950.

Students want school officials to either rename the building entirely or add Lynch's first name and middle initial, saying the word recalls the public executions of black men by white mobs in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
It was included on a list of demands that students presented to the school on Friday. Other demands include a more diverse curriculum, more sensitivity training for staff and regular surveys of the racial climate on campus.

School spokesman Marty Parkes said Tuesday that President Lewis Thayne is considering all of the demands and will address them at a forum next month.
Calling Lynch a “very important figure'' in the history of the college, Parkes said officials want to avoid “doing anything that would denigrate his memory or his legacy here.''

The school's website says Lynch led the college through the Great Depression and World War II and raised $550,000 for a new physical education building. The building that bears his name houses several academic departments.
The controversy over the name was first reported by Pennlive.com.

Lebanon Valley College has about 1,600 undergraduates. It's 90 miles west of Philadelphia

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Will this microagression, hypersensativity, copycat..," I want to make the news like the other kids" CRAP ever end. ?

they really need to STFU and learn,instead of thinking they are King Activist!
Then the Jerks wonder why their Tuition-Fees are steadily raising!Small wonder,with them wasting time that could be better spent studying,graduating and moving on to some gainful Occupation,if that is at all possible with the type of Disciplines they are studying!

I suppose next ting they do is forcing Attorney General,Loretta Lynch to change her name?

suppose next ting they do is forcing Attorney General,Loretta Lynch to change her name?

Geez..I was actually wondering about that.

" I am so offened by that name. I must DEMAND it be changed "

Yay! More crybabies.

welcome to the new world

Someone needs to put a boot up their whiney butts! This is petty and makes them look ridiculous