As an alumni if MTSU, I hope that the school will do the right thing. Let's celebrate what's good about America not what's Bad.
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Shawn Whitsell
11 years ago
I sign this petition proudly, particularly as an alum of MTSU who had to walk past that building every day for years of my life. I am thankful I never had to step foot in it.
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Kari Neely
11 years ago
As a professor who has taught in Forrest Hall I am embarrassed. I requested never to be assigned to that building but changing the name is the *real* solution.
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Hudson Wilkins
11 years ago
This is long overdue.
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Michael Principe
11 years ago
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Having taught at MTSU for nearly 30 years, this has been one of the most blatantly offensive and embarrassing features of campus. This issue has come up many times before. The time is right a change.
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KiLiK X
11 years ago
Really MTSU ??
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Mike Poole
11 years ago
Time to change. MTSU alumni.
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Abi Jett
11 years ago
What an embarrassment.
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Charles Burns
11 years ago
As a southerner and an MTSU alumnus, my heritage has nothing to do with Forrest or the campaign of racial terror he represented. I sincerely hope my alma mater ends its association with him immediately.
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Samuel Lester
11 years ago
Buildings everywhere, but especially at state universities should be named for great thinkers,writers, and heroes, or at least benefactors, not for people who made our society worse. Please change the name – it's time.
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Clay Cooper
11 years ago
As a historian of the nineteenth-century South and MTSU, I firmly believe the university needs to take the necessary stops to change the building's name.
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Jake
11 years ago
Current MTSU student- this building needs to be renamed NOW. How dare MTSU honor such a despicable man!
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Joshua Liner
11 years ago
MTSU's entire association with NBF (Forrest Hall, the Blue Raider name/mascot) is a sick joke and makes us look like a joke to outsiders. He slaughtered and hunted black folks in his military and civilian careers--and in his twilight, went around making speeches blaming *them* them for "misunderstanding" him all those years. We need to sever this connection immediately!
Joshua Liner, MTSU alumnus
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B. Ross Ashley
11 years ago
As the great-grandson fo a Confederate soldier, I find naming anything after this racist slave-trader to be repugnant in the extreme. Rename the Hall now.
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Kasey
11 years ago
This is disgusting. There's no excuse for it. NONE
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Jacob Wittenberg
11 years ago
As a former student of MTSU I STRONGLY support the effort to change the name of Forrest Hall to literally anything that isn't named after a generations old racist.
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Tracy crawford
11 years ago
I cannot believe that this has not already been changed. It's 2015!!
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F E Beemon
11 years ago
Professor Emeritus of History, MTSU
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Kelly Northcutt
11 years ago
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I'm an alumnus, BFA, Class of 1986, and it has been an embarrassment since I first attended MTSU that such a violent white supremacist is honored by an institution of higher learning. It's past time to change the name.
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Michael Cannon
11 years ago
I'm an MTSU alum and Forrest's name is a stain on our campus.
As an alumni if MTSU, I hope that the school will do the right thing. Let's celebrate what's good about America not what's Bad.
I sign this petition proudly, particularly as an alum of MTSU who had to walk past that building every day for years of my life. I am thankful I never had to step foot in it.
As a professor who has taught in Forrest Hall I am embarrassed. I requested never to be assigned to that building but changing the name is the *real* solution.
This is long overdue.
Having taught at MTSU for nearly 30 years, this has been one of the most blatantly offensive and embarrassing features of campus. This issue has come up many times before. The time is right a change.
Really MTSU ??
Time to change. MTSU alumni.
What an embarrassment.
As a southerner and an MTSU alumnus, my heritage has nothing to do with Forrest or the campaign of racial terror he represented. I sincerely hope my alma mater ends its association with him immediately.
Buildings everywhere, but especially at state universities should be named for great thinkers,writers, and heroes, or at least benefactors, not for people who made our society worse. Please change the name – it's time.
As a historian of the nineteenth-century South and MTSU, I firmly believe the university needs to take the necessary stops to change the building's name.
Current MTSU student- this building needs to be renamed NOW. How dare MTSU honor such a despicable man!
MTSU's entire association with NBF (Forrest Hall, the Blue Raider name/mascot) is a sick joke and makes us look like a joke to outsiders. He slaughtered and hunted black folks in his military and civilian careers--and in his twilight, went around making speeches blaming *them* them for "misunderstanding" him all those years. We need to sever this connection immediately! Joshua Liner, MTSU alumnus
As the great-grandson fo a Confederate soldier, I find naming anything after this racist slave-trader to be repugnant in the extreme. Rename the Hall now.
This is disgusting. There's no excuse for it. NONE
As a former student of MTSU I STRONGLY support the effort to change the name of Forrest Hall to literally anything that isn't named after a generations old racist.
I cannot believe that this has not already been changed. It's 2015!!
Professor Emeritus of History, MTSU
I'm an alumnus, BFA, Class of 1986, and it has been an embarrassment since I first attended MTSU that such a violent white supremacist is honored by an institution of higher learning. It's past time to change the name.
I'm an MTSU alum and Forrest's name is a stain on our campus.