Indiana University officials are considering whether to remove the name of a onetime trustee who also was an ardent segregationist from an intramural building on the Bloomington campus, the Associated Press reported today. The trustee, Ora Leonard Wildermuth, was an alumnus, was president of Indiana’s board in the 1940s, died in 1964, and was honored when the Wildermuth Intramural Center was named for him, in 1971. He stated his segregationist views in letters to Indiana administrators at a time when the institution was facing pressure to integrate. Fresh attention was drawn to the Wildermuth Intramural Center’s namesake by an article in Tuesday’s Indiana Daily Student. —Andrew Mytelka
April 11, 2007
Indiana U. to Reconsider Decision to Name Campus Building for Segregationist
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