Protesters want MTSU Forrest Hall name change now (TN)
Brian Wilson
6:55 p.m. CST November 23, 2015
MURFREESBORO — Demonstrators calling for a new name for Middle Tennessee State University's Forrest Hall on Monday afternoon criticized the institution's timeline to decide whether the name should remain.
While MTSU President Sidney McPhee defended the task force he charged with considering whether to change the name of the hall dedicated for controversial Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, some of the more than two dozen protesters said the task force's April deadline for a recommendation is too far away and designed to delay the decision until students lose interest.
"This is our last nice demand for this before this could escalate," graduate student Joshua Crutchfield said at the beginning of the on-campus demonstration.
Protesters marched from the Student Union Building to Forrest Hall, the campus ROTC building, with an effigy of the Confederate general in a gray uniform and a coffin he was eventually placed in. The coffin was left at the feet of Forrest Hall once the event ended ...
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