Salovey listens to student disappointment over naming decisions By Mike Cummings April 29, 2016 Yale President Peter Salovey stood before hundreds of students on April 28 at Battell Chapel and engaged in a frank, open, and often impassioned exchange about the university’s decision to retain the name of Calhoun College, as well as other recent naming decisions on campus. In his opening remarks, Salovey assured the students, many of whom were wearing tape over their mouths in protest, that their opinions were highly valued as the Yale Corporation weighed whether to rename the residential college named after 19th-century American statesman John C. Calhoun, who supported nullification and fervently defended slavery as a “public good.” “You may feel it didn’t come out the way you wanted to come
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