I am proud of Yale today. See what they did!

[CTyankee]

http://patch.com/connecticut/newhaven/yale-rename-calhoun-college-grace-hopper?utm_source=article-mostrecent

This is what change looks like. Let's hear it for Peter Salovey and all the Yalies that rallied around this movement to right a wrong.

John C. Calhoun, a champion of racism and slavery, has been renamed for a woman, Grace Hopper, who was a great woman.

I salute you, Yale!

[underpants]

1. Go Eli!

[Historic NY]

2. Admiral Hopper.....

[CTyankee]

3. about fucking time, doncha think? This has been brewing for several years and finally came to pass.

I just sent a message in the ATA to Skinner who is a Yalie. I'm sure he's heard the news. It's just great!

[PoliticAverse]

4. "Grace Mary Hopper" - Murray not Mary. The writer should have read the bio they linked to...

http://president.yale.edu/biography-grace-murray-hopper

[CTyankee]

6. huh? where is that? what did I miss?

[PoliticAverse]

7. In the latter part of the article...

Grace Mary Hopper, for whom the college will be renamed, was "a trailblazing computer scientist, brilliant mathematician and teacher, and dedicated public servant,

[longship]

8. This thread needs Hopper pics!

As always, nice to see you back, my friend.

[braddy]

9. I ran into her at an airport once, during the 1980s, I didn't know who she was but my Ranger buddy

was a big fan, and told her so.

She was sure a sight to see in her Navy uniform.

[Ilsa]

10. I love this. Made my day. NT

[SeattleVet]

11. I had the honor of meeting her twice.

I still have a couple of nanoseconds around here, and a packet of picoseconds that she handed out when she was a representative of Digital Equipment Corporation, after she had finally retired from the Navy.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. She taught my dad COBOL programming

when he worked for the federal government. My mom said they used to call her "The Admiral".

[secondwind]

13. KNR!!!!!!!

[hunter]

14. As it should be.

Universities ought to honor those who use their brains, not those who have abused their privilege.

[zentrum]

15. Not all that proud of them.

They should have done this decades ago. They knew and did nothing as long as they could away with it.
But now, under intense scrutiny and pressure---they finally do the right thing.

They should go further and make a statement about the shameful omission in teaching history at all levels in this country---about how the presence of slavery built the country's wealth and infrastructure and how history is not taught.

Now--onto Columbia which, as I understand it, has some slavery-denial issues of its own.

All these places need to come clean and then offer massive scholarships to Black students to atone for their deeply collusiveness and apathetic behavior.

[CTyankee]

18. well, at last they have owned up so no one showed up .....

[sarge43]

16. Somewhat good on you, Yale. Finally did the right thing. Way over due. n/t

[SaschaHM]

17. Super proud of my Alma Mater.

And the many alums and current students that fought for this name change. As to why it didn't happen sooner, my guess would be that the activism around college names didn't really start up until the two newer residential colleges were announced. We tried to get Hopper as one of the names, but the board decided otherwise (to the tune of about 250 million to name on after Ben Franklin). It is also like pulling teeth getting institutional change.

Hopper College has a nice ring to it. Not as nice as Saybrook, but nothing is.

[CTyankee]

19. Sayrook,but time goes on...

[Lucinda]

20. KNR