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Texas State to remove name of United Daughters of the Confederacy member from residence hall

The university will remove the name of Sallie Ward Beretta from Beretta Hall due to Beretta s association with the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Texas State President Denise Trauth announced ....

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Opinion: Freshman should not be forced to live on campus

Bright-eyed, 18 years old and unquestionably innocent, I moved into my Texas State on-campus dorm both excited to make new friends and because of Texas State s freshman housing requirement. I ....

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Texas State to "lay out facts" surrounding controversial namesakes of buildings

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Texas State is establishing a task force of scholars to research and analyze the lives of the namesakes of Beretta Hall and Flowers Hall in an effort to rename them.
In a Feb. 1 email from University President Denise Trauth, the university says a group of scholars from various departments in the university plan to âconduct scholarly analyses of the historical contexts of the lives and careers of Sallie Ward Beretta and John Garland Flowers,â the individuals who the buildings are named after.
Beretta Hall is named after a Daughter of the Confederacy.
Flowers, the third president of Texas State, or known then as Southwest Texas State College, openly opposed integration when he denied admission to Dana Jean Smith, an 18-year-old Black woman, by citing a whites-only provision in the school charter.Â ....

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Texas Universities Promised Action After Summer's Racial Reckoning. But They're Still Reluctant To Shed Confederate Relics

The Texas Tribune
Shifa Rahman, left, and Blaise, who declined to share a last name, hold signs at the base of the William Marsh Rice statue on the campus of Rice University in Houston. Rahman has spent an hour on campus nearly every day since August calling for the removal of the statue.
Students of color said they feel most of their calls to eliminate racist symbols from campuses have been ignored or intentionally mired in lengthy, bureaucratic processes intended to delay answers to difficult questions.
This summer, students called on the University of Texas at Austin to stop playing the “The Eyes of Texas,” the alma mater song that has historical minstrel show ties. Aggies petitioned Texas A&M University to take down the statue of Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross, a former governor and Confederate general. Students at Rice University demanded removal of the monument of the school founder, William “Willy” Rice, a slave owner. ....

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Confederate relics still standing at many Texas universities

Students of color said they feel most of their calls to eliminate racist symbols from campuses have been ignored or intentionally mired in lengthy, bureaucratic processes intended to delay answers to difficult questions. ....

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