The boulder is a rare, large example of a pre-Cambrian era glacial erratic that experts say is likely over 2 billion years old
The rock is not just a rock, is an apparently important rock that is also named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin.
The reason for changing it was that in 1920 it was sometimes referred to by racists using a slur.
So the rock is not named that, it has an actual name, it has been 100 years since someone referred to it using a slur but they think removing it makes the world better, somehow.
No, it's even worse than that. It was called a niggerhead (descriptive term at the time, as explained by others) in a magazine in the 1920s, LITERALLY ONCE. Once. And not officially, by the University, either, but by some sort of scientific magazine...
Worse still, when they went looking for "evidence", they couldn't even find the article in question, so this is literally based on hearsay...
But honestly, what should really worry people here, is the power that this demonstrates. If the "black student society" agitates enough, they can convince the university board to literally do anything, no matter the logic, the grievance, or the cost, financial and otherwise... That's what should truly scare you, and I think that's a big part of why they did it. To prove a point, and as a show of power. :-S
The rock is not just a rock, is an apparently important rock that is also named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin.
The reason for changing it was that in 1920 it was sometimes referred to by racists using a slur.
So the rock is not named that, it has an actual name, it has been 100 years since someone referred to it using a slur but they think removing it makes the world better, somehow.
No, it's even worse than that. It was called a niggerhead (descriptive term at the time, as explained by others) in a magazine in the 1920s, LITERALLY ONCE. Once. And not officially, by the University, either, but by some sort of scientific magazine...
Worse still, when they went looking for "evidence", they couldn't even find the article in question, so this is literally based on hearsay...
But honestly, what should really worry people here, is the power that this demonstrates. If the "black student society" agitates enough, they can convince the university board to literally do anything, no matter the logic, the grievance, or the cost, financial and otherwise... That's what should truly scare you, and I think that's a big part of why they did it. To prove a point, and as a show of power. :-S