Swarthmore scrubs professor’s name from hall due to ‘Indigenous grave excavation’

“Professor’s burial ground dig was ‘unethical,’ college president says Swarthmore College plans to unveil new names for its former Trotter Hall and Trotter Lawn this fall after campus leaders discovered that their namesake, natural history Professor Spencer Trotter, excavated a Native American grave site and removed human remains. President Val Smith plans to review the renaming… Source

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