re: Vanderbilt pays $1.2M to remove 'Confederate' from dorm name

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...and I really don't see the big deal about this at all. I read that the building went up in the 1930s, so it isn't like it holds any real connection to the Confederacy.

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It is also worth noting that the naming of this hall (and the receipt of $50k from the Daughters of the Confederacy for the naming rights) pre-dated its association with Vanderbilt. This dormitory is on the old George Peabody College for Teachers campus, which merged with Vanderbilt in 1979.