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.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
screw them. the school should tell them to grow the hell up and stop with the stupid childish moronic behavior.
since when are the inmates allowed to run the asylum if they are so damn smart they should be working not going to school!
how about them having a vote..and those who actually pay to go to school vote–and those who have a free ride, don’t.
If my kid was among these students with these ridiculous demands, I would tell him/her to find a job to pay his/her own tuition because I would not be wasting my money on this. If this is his/her opinion, he/she can grow up, pay their own way and do their ‘DEMANDING” with their own money and on their own time. Plus they never seem to think if it wasn’t for men like Clyde Lynch had not existed, they probably wouldn’t have that school to attend. And these students can feel free to form and build their own college and name it whatever they want.
Holy SH!T
guess Loretta lynch has to change her name as well, huh?
Stupid is as stupid does!!!! It’s amazing how rediculas people can be.
UH. TELL THESE MORONIC KIDS NO AND STICK TO YOUR DECISION.
Lynch the PC movement
We have to rename athletic teams because their name might n offend native Americans
It’s time to photo all of the protestors, identify them then call the parents to come pick up the little cretins. Expulsion is in order.
Way back when I went to college in the early ’60’s, before all the crap started, the students wouldn’t put up with this. We ostracized the buttheads.
You were in college in the ’60’s, and didn’t engage in any crap ?? Maybe you just don’t remember it.
Where the hell do these kids in all of these campus’s around the states come off DEMANDING anything. These kids have no respect any longer. You can’t rewrite history idiots.
WELL, WE ALL KNOW WHAT “P C PRINCIPLE’ WOULD SAY. AND IF YOU DON’T…YOU BETTER CATCH UP ON SOUTH PARK, WHERE P C PRINCIPLE IS IMPOSING HIS ‘P C’ WILL, WITH HIS OWN FORM OF VIOLENCE, 1ST AMENDMENT BE DAMNED. JEEZE, YOUS GUYS.
MORON?
MORON?
I USED TO BE A GENIUS, BUT AFTER A TRAFFIC CRASH, I WAS DEMOTED TO IMBECILE, BUT SOON IT WILL BE MORON.
JUST A WARNING ‘CAUSE MORON IS NEXT STEP DOWN THE INTELLIGENCE LADDER’, AND I WOULD HAVE TO TAKE OFFENCE.
MARTIN THE IMBECILE
Of all the idiotic things, terrorists, mass shootings, and these people are worried about the name of a building? Please people, do something to prevent the cranial to anal inversion.
I have a great idea! Tell them the name stays and they may transfer if they don’t like it!
tell the students to sit down and shut the hell up. I’m sick and tired of the sheep dip. Either they are there to get a degree or get the hell out so someone who might be interested in a degree can gave thei spot. Political correctness is bull crap and causing nothing but trouble. Grow the hell up or go peddle somewhere else. Can’t you poor little heatherns see you are being used to separate our people in our country and you are too damn stupid to see what’s happening. Keep kidding up to that garbage in Washington and lose the rights you have left. You better grow up and tell them to stop trying to separate our people.
I vote for “Crossburn Hall”.
What’s wrong with calling it the “Clyde A. Lynch Memorial Hall’ ? (Assuming that student protestors don’t get lynched in front of it first).