MIT is now grappling with calls from Native American students and others to strip Walker's name from a campus building that is central to student life - part of a broader push for the nation's higher education institutions to atone for the role they played in the decimation of Native American tribes.
Francis Amasa Walker, the third president of MIT, helped bring the school its prestige. He also wrote a treatise in 1874 justifying the forced removal of Native Americans from their land. Now, students and alumni are debating how to navigate Walker’s mixed legacy.
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