Posted
5/22/2010 01:03:00 PM
by Douglas
Turns out a dorm at UT has been named, for the last 55 years, after a guy that founded the Klan in Florida about a hundred years go. Queue the PC
police.Simkins Residence Hall is the last all-male dormitory at the University of Texas. Tucked into a quiet corner of campus along Waller Creek, it was the first men's dorm with air conditioning.
It is notable for another reason as well: Simkins is named for a UT law professor who was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
When they rename it, I wonder how they're going to fit "Guevara Chavez King Kennedy Hall" on the new maps.