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A former UT professor who has researched UT’s less-than-proud past on race relations is reminding the world that Simkins Hall bears the name of a Ku Klux ? organizer, but UT officials say they aren’t sure renaming the aging dorm would be well advised.
After years of research, professor Thomas Russell now is pushing UT officials to remove Simkins’s name from the dorm. The residence hall is named after William Stewart Simkins, who Russell says boasted of his past organizing the KKK in Florida while he was teaching law at Texas.
Russell himself taught law at UT for 10 years and now works at the University of Denver. During his decade in Austin, he started looking into Simkins, and last month he published a research paper on the subject.
Simkins Hall was commemorated in 1954. Situated along Waller Creek, it opened in 1955 as the campus’s first air-conditioned men’s building. It remains UT’s only all-male hall, housing 190 young men.
Russell’s call for its renaming has gotten attention locally and now nationally. Austin TV station KXAN reported it this week, and the Chronicle of Higher Education picked it up yesterday.
“It’s simply not appropriate for The University of Texas administrators to continue to honor a Klansman by keeping his name on a dormitory,” Russell told KXAN. “After the war, he participated in violence against blacks. And then while he was at the University, he used to give a speech honoring his own ? past.”
A bust of Simkins was removed from the hall years ago. But administrators are not rushing to make a name change that they told the news organizations would be costly, complicated, and ultimately moot.
Renaming the dorm could be a long and expensive process that would require approval from the Board of Regents, pointed out Gregory Vincent, UT’s vice-president for diversity and community engagement. Simkins Hall is slated for eventual teardown, he added, and in the meantime, it’s important to acknowledge the University’s history in a forthright way.
“Through a process, with students and faculty, they recognized this particular person,” Vincent said. “So the question is now, do we un-recongnize those individuals? I think what we need to be careful about is making sure we send the message that we need to be honest about our history.”
Simkins, a Citadel graduate and Civil War veteran, was connected to many law school traditions, says Jim Nicar, the Texas Exes’ UT history and traditions coordinator. For instance, the law school mascot Peregrinus was invented in his classroom.
According to Nicar’s research, Simkins was an eccentric character with long hair and a colorful, effective teaching style. The hall was named after him because it was closer to the law school than other men’s dorms and was designed to house law students.
Renaming buildings becomes a vexing question because figures from the past were products of their times and may have held views that are incompatible with modern values, Nicar says. Gov. Oran Roberts, who signed UT into existence and is the namesake of Roberts Hall, chaired the secession commission that led Texas out of the Union during the Civil War, he notes. Even George Washington, whose statue is on campus, owned slaves.
“At what point do we draw the line?” Nicar asks. “While none of us today would agree with or condone Simkins’s involvement with the ? , Russell’s article is full of what historians call ‘present-ism,’ judging persons of the past by present-day values. I certainly wouldn’t want a Simkins on the faculty today, but I understand that he was a product of his time as we are of ours.
more to come!!!!!!!!!!
After years of research, professor Thomas Russell now is pushing UT officials to remove Simkins’s name from the dorm. The residence hall is named after William Stewart Simkins, who Russell says boasted of his past organizing the KKK in Florida while he was teaching law at Texas.
Russell himself taught law at UT for 10 years and now works at the University of Denver. During his decade in Austin, he started looking into Simkins, and last month he published a research paper on the subject.
Simkins Hall was commemorated in 1954. Situated along Waller Creek, it opened in 1955 as the campus’s first air-conditioned men’s building. It remains UT’s only all-male hall, housing 190 young men.
Russell’s call for its renaming has gotten attention locally and now nationally. Austin TV station KXAN reported it this week, and the Chronicle of Higher Education picked it up yesterday.
“It’s simply not appropriate for The University of Texas administrators to continue to honor a Klansman by keeping his name on a dormitory,” Russell told KXAN. “After the war, he participated in violence against blacks. And then while he was at the University, he used to give a speech honoring his own ? past.”
A bust of Simkins was removed from the hall years ago. But administrators are not rushing to make a name change that they told the news organizations would be costly, complicated, and ultimately moot.
Renaming the dorm could be a long and expensive process that would require approval from the Board of Regents, pointed out Gregory Vincent, UT’s vice-president for diversity and community engagement. Simkins Hall is slated for eventual teardown, he added, and in the meantime, it’s important to acknowledge the University’s history in a forthright way.
“Through a process, with students and faculty, they recognized this particular person,” Vincent said. “So the question is now, do we un-recongnize those individuals? I think what we need to be careful about is making sure we send the message that we need to be honest about our history.”
Simkins, a Citadel graduate and Civil War veteran, was connected to many law school traditions, says Jim Nicar, the Texas Exes’ UT history and traditions coordinator. For instance, the law school mascot Peregrinus was invented in his classroom.
According to Nicar’s research, Simkins was an eccentric character with long hair and a colorful, effective teaching style. The hall was named after him because it was closer to the law school than other men’s dorms and was designed to house law students.
Renaming buildings becomes a vexing question because figures from the past were products of their times and may have held views that are incompatible with modern values, Nicar says. Gov. Oran Roberts, who signed UT into existence and is the namesake of Roberts Hall, chaired the secession commission that led Texas out of the Union during the Civil War, he notes. Even George Washington, whose statue is on campus, owned slaves.
“At what point do we draw the line?” Nicar asks. “While none of us today would agree with or condone Simkins’s involvement with the ? , Russell’s article is full of what historians call ‘present-ism,’ judging persons of the past by present-day values. I certainly wouldn’t want a Simkins on the faculty today, but I understand that he was a product of his time as we are of ours.
more to come!!!!!!!!!!
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didn't read
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trill post.....
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mrhustletown wrote: »
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lol
don't make me laugh i got hit in the head with a football today
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beezy f baby wrote: »lol
don't make me laugh i got hit in the head with a football today
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What the hell were you doing? -
In Texas of all places? Surely these claims are exaggerated.
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mrhustletown wrote: »What the hell were you doing?
walking through arrowhead parking lot and walked right in between 2 guys throwing a football..dude told me to watch out...too late ...damn right into the side of my head..? knocked me to the ground lmao..i think i gotta concussion
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beezy f baby wrote: »walking through arrowhead parking lot and walked right in between 2 guys throwing a football..dude told me to watch out...too late ...damn right into the side of my head..? knocked me to the ground lmao..i think i gotta concussion
You shoulda caught it lol. -
i post some real ? and you bytches dont even have the courage or self discipline to read real info
but choose to talk about getting hit in the head wit footballs
you see its people like that pass the buck and kick the can down the road that solidifies the racist stereotypes
that we have SHAME ON YOU
YOU SAID TEXAS U. WASNT RACIST
i gave you proof
i guess your just blind to tha facts
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you see they dont want to acknowledge the truth
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I guess this got started in the ole miss thread....
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Not surprised
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whats new fam?
universities all thru the south have honors in the name of slavers,? members,oppressors and eugenicists -
oh
and do you know many high schools in the south are named after nathan bedford forrest and jefferson davis?
a whole ass load of them
i couldnt dare send my kid(s) to a school named after the founder of the ? but its been goin on for many years.
so a dorm being named after a ? supporter is small exchange
ESPECIALLY
when ole miss still running the rebel flag -
the reason i started this was simply to show the ignorant that give the burden to ole miss as the only school that has skeletons in it's closet and at it's dinner table
but you see the guy with the longhorn avatar is silent like the close minded bytch he truly is
i choose now to diss him because he wont even atempt to defend his school
a coward he is
and guess what we (ole miss) plays texas next year!!!!!!!!!!!
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had to be texas smh
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LOL@this clown finding ? ...staying up late at night to tryin to justify the kkk being at ole ? football games.Nobody cares about mississipp,i everyone know that place is still a hell hole.Is that better?
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*Did read.
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greenwood1921 wrote: »*Did read.
texass stay losing. lol
Yet oklahoma stay recruiting Texas talent....miss me -
Yet oklahoma stay recruiting Texas talent....miss me
Still on that childish "my state" ? I see. OU never recruited a player from texass. From the state of Texas, yeah, but not lawse factory in Austin. lol
it's all good, u a Florida state fan anyway. U just live in Texas. -
I took a couple girls on a boat ride this past weekend.
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Female MMA >>> This thread
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Yet oklahoma stay recruiting Texas talent....miss me
so does almost every other college in the NCAA, ? . miss me with your irrelevant ass points.