![]() ![]() And, like all students on campus, they should feel a sense of possession of the university. They are, unlike in Wilson’s day, an integral part of the community. They are not guests on campus or beneficiaries of charity who should be grateful to the school. Black students at Princeton aren’t interlopers. One of the administration’s most important decisions was to rename West College, which houses the dean of the college and the undergraduate admissions office, after Toni Morrison, who taught for many years at the university. The school also agreed to diversify representation across the campus. Signage around campus and within dormitories now gives a fuller sense of Wilson’s segregationist views, and of Princeton’s exclusionary history. In the end, Princeton chose not to remove Wilson’s name from the buildings, but it did agree to deepen its story of Wilson. ![]() “It’s all about the questions we ask,” she said. Nell Painter, an emerita professor and the author of “ The History of White People,” spoke to the heart of the matter. ![]() Scholars, biographers, and members of the school community were invited to contribute to the conversation. ![]() Spurred by the students’ protest, Princeton’s president, Christopher Eisgruber, and the school’s board of trustees established a committee to reëxamine the ways in which the university commemorated Wilson. ![]()
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