The decision by the Council of Trustees followed a recommendation from West Chester's Namesake Committee, which was also endorsed by President Christopher Fiorentino.
named after its founding president, David Starr Jordan, a leading proponent of eugenics, and better educate the university about his full history.the name of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from its public and international affairs school and a residential college. The move followed years of protest by students, who decried Wilson’s prominence on campus, given his racist views and policies, including keeping Black students from enrolling at Princeton when he headed it.
“Within a couple minutes, not even, I was able to clearly see that this man had some very intolerant ideas,” said Stoyack, who now works as a park ranger in Virginia. “I knew that it was an injustice, and I was surprised that no one really knew about this.” Schmucker also justified the forced sterilization of criminals and in one of his books wrote at length about “the genetic superiority of Europeans, and Western Europeans in particular,” according to the West Chester committee report.
“The blight of feeblemindedness is hanging over humanity,” Schmucker said, according to the article. “We must segregate them with profitable labor if possible, for life, and not for a few years.”It was an extreme view even among eugenics proponents of his time, Roswick said, which emerged as another reason for the West Chester committee’s recommendation.
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