Carr name removed from building on Duke campus
Nearly five months after the Board of Trustees at Duke University voted to change the name of the Carr Building, which was named for Julian Carr, a white supremacist who fought for the confederacy and gave a fiery speech in 1913 at the Silent Sam statue dedication, the name on the building has been covered.
Posted — UpdatedAccording to a spokesperson with the university, the name was covered last week.
According to a statement released late last year, the building will now be called the Classroom Building -- its original name -- until a new name is chosen.
The statement did not elaborate on when a new name for the building would be chosen or who would make the decision.
The trustees approved the measure after recommendations from a university committee that had studied the issue and from President Vincent E. Price.
"With each new student or faculty member who arrives here, with each new discovery made or perspective shared, this community grows and evolves to better meet the challenges of its time," Price said in an email to the Duke campus. "The renaming of the Carr Building represents one such evolution, at once a reflection of how our world has changed and a demonstration that our values and bonds will endure far longer than mortar or stone.”
The Carr Building committee's membership includes current and former trustees, faculty, staff, students, alumni and members of the administration as well as historians and the current university archivist and the university archivist emeritus.
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