I originally thought we had jumped the shark of campus whining last December, when students at Lebanon Valley College demanded the administration change the name of the “Lynch Memorial Building” because of the word “lynch.”
As ludicrous as that demand was, it was soon surpassed in January when students at the University of Oregon decided Martin Luther King, Jr. — a man revered for his devotion to and sacrifices on behalf of civil rights — was not inclusive enough. They specifically objected to King’s famous quotation: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
The quote was hanging above the lobby at Oregon’s Erb Memorial Union. But because skin color was the only thing MLK referred to, students considered asking to remove it.
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