For a year now strong protests and debates have been raging over the naming of a building on Yale’s campus. Last year, in protest, a worker broke a stained glass window featuring John C. Calhoun in one of it’s residential colleges in probably the most public part of the whole mess.

And honestly, it’s a suprise that this is even a debate. Calhoun wad not debatably a slavery defender, it is fact! And Yale, as a 21st century forward-looking dverse institution surely can’t keep ties with such a past…. BUT it persisted and the debate raged. Finally sense has won.

Last year the university president claimed that keeping the name would “encourage the campus community to confront the history of slavery and teach that history and its legacy.”…… Now, there has been a turn around.

University president Peter Salovey met with the institution’s Board of Trustees and he said of the decision:

“The decision to change a college’s name is not one we take lightly, but John C. Calhoun’s legacy as a white supremacist and a national leader who passionately promoted slavery as a ‘positive good’ fundamentally conflicts with Yale’s mission and values,” Salovey said. “I have asked Jonathan Holloway, Dean of Yale College, and Julia Adams, the head of Calhoun College, to determine when this change best can be put into effect.”

Is this too little too late? Or do you applaud this?