After George Floyd's death, USC alumni circulate petition to rename buildings
University of South Carolina alumni are circulating a petition to rename two buildings on campus whose namesakes were tied to segregation or slavery.
The two online petitions, calling for the Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center and Sims at Women’s Quad, a dormitory for female students, to be renamed, have each received more than 2,000 signatures, according to the petitions.
The petitions cite Thurmond’s long opposition to racial integration and J. Marion Sims — considered to be the father of modern gynecology — experimenting on enslaved women without anesthesia.
“I Googled his name and was immediately infuriated that the most prominent building on campus was named after a racist politician,” said Heather Armel, a 2014 USC graduate who started the petition to rename the Strom Thurmond center.
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