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Yale to Rename Calhoun College

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Amid protests over its namesake’s support for slavery.

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Yale University president Peter Salovey announced on Saturday that one of the university’s residential colleges, Calhoun College, will be renamed to honor Grace Murray Hopper, a Navy rear admiral who died in 1992.

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