Vanderbilt University Removes Confederate from Inscription at Front of Dorm

Vanderbilt University announced Monday that it will delete the word “Confederate” from the stone pediment at the entrance to a student dormitory known as Memorial Hall.  To make the change, the private university in Nashville was required under the terms of a 2005 court ruling to pay $1.2 million to the Tennessee division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. That sum represents the present value of a $50,000 donation the organization made in 1933 for the building’s construction and naming rights.