University panel sets Dec. 1 for first of two
sessions on building’s name
MURFREESBORO — Members
of the task force considering whether to change the name of MTSU’s Forrest Hall
set Dec. 1 for the first of two open forums on the topic.
Task
force chairman Derek Frisby, who heads the 17-member panel of students,
faculty, alumni and community members, said the forum will be from 6:30-8:30
p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1, in the Parliamentary Room (201) on the second floor of the
Student Union Building.
Frisby,
a Civil War historian and faculty member in the Global Studies and Cultural
Geography department, said the task force will hold a second public forum in
late January.
The
university announced in June that it would engage the community on the name of
the campus building that houses MTSU’s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps
program and is named after Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
MTSU
President Sidney A. McPhee asked the panel to recommend by April whether the
building should be renamed; retain the name but with added historical
perspective; or recommend that no action or change is warranted. The Tennessee
Board of Regents would have to approve any recommended name change and the
university is also researching whether other state authorities would have to
give approval as well.
Task
force meetings are open to the public. For more information about the task
force, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/forresthall.
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