AUBURN — A green line flows through a field of pink in Italian artist Paola Machetta’s art quilt “River gone green,” one of many artworks in the Schweinfurth Art Center’s
June 4, 202111:47 am
CHANGE COMING: To Lee Chapel, where a statute of Lee lying behind this speaker is to be walled off in the future. Images of Washington and Lee also are to be removed from the university diplomas.
Alumni of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. (I am one) were just informed by e-mail that the University Board of Trustees had voted 22-6 not to change the name.
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I’d been told last week that signers of a letter from some of the school’s biggest donors, including from Arkansas, had already been informed the name would not change. I have no reason to doubt the influence of money on the decision.