By MICHAEL TILLEY/ TALK BUSINESS & POLITICS
University of Arkansas Chancellor Dr. Joseph Steinmetz supports the move to rename a main dining hall on the campus and relocate a statue of former U.S. Sen. William Fulbright, but opposes renaming the university’s Fulbright College of Art and Sciences.
Earlier this year a university-sanctioned committee reviewed requests to rename Brough Commons, the dining hall, and address the university’s connection to Sen. Fulbright. The committee voted to remove Charles Brough’s name from the dining hall, remove the Fulbright statue from its location outside Old Main, and rename the university’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Brough was Arkansas’ 25th governor and served from January 1917 to January 1921. Brough is connected to what is known as the Elaine Massacre in the summer of 1919.
The chancellor of the University of Arkansas is recommending the statue of Sen. J. William Fulbright be removed from the Fayetteville campus.
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