Calhoun College, which will be renamed to honor Grace Murray Hopper. (ANDREW SULLIVAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES)

Calhoun College, which will be renamed to honor Grace Murray Hopper. (ANDREW SULLIVAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES)

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Yale University to Drop White Supremacist John Calhoun’s Name From Building

After a swelling tide of protests, the president of Yale announced today that the university would change the name of a residential college commemorating John C. Calhoun, the 19th-century white supremacist statesman from South Carolina. The college will be renamed for Grace Murray Hopper, a trailblazing computer scientist and Navy rear admiral who received a master’s degree and a doctorate from Yale.