Vanderbilt Agrees to Leave the Word 'Confederate' on a Building, Ending a 3-Year Fight

By DEVIN VARSALONA

Vanderbilt University announced on Tuesday that it was dropping its three-year court fight to remove the name Confederate Memorial Hall from the stone front of a campus dormitory.

Vanderbilt dropped "Confederate" from the dormitory's official name in 2002, after more than 20 years...