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The building became part of Vanderbilt University campus in 1979 when the university acquired Peabody College. [3] By 1988, students were holding protests on campus, arguing the building's name was offensive to black students. [5] As a result, the university added a memorial plaque near the building to contextualize the origin of the name. [5] [3]
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In 1960, African-American Divinity student James Lawson was expelled from the university for his Civil Rights activism by Chancellor Harvie Branscomb. [3] One of Vanderbilt's trustees, James Geddes Stahlman, published misleading stories in a newspaper he owned, The Nashville Banner, which suggested Lawson had incited others to "violate the law" and led to his expulsion. [3]
The band forms the core of the student section at intercollegiate football games hosted by Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt Stadium and performs at all Vanderbilt Commodores home football games, as well as a select number of away games. The Spirit of Gold works with the Office of the Dean of Students to coordinate the band's performances at football games.
Occupy Vanderbilt was a collaboration that included demonstrations and an occupation located at Alumni Circle Lawn at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Occupy Vanderbilt engaged in organized meetings, events and actions through March 2012. [1]
The Vanderbilt rape case is a criminal case of sexual assault that occurred on June 23, 2013, in Nashville, Tennessee, in which four Vanderbilt University football players carried an unconscious 21-year-old female student into a dorm room, gang-raped and sodomized her, photographed and videotaped her, and one urinated on her face. [1] [2] [3 ...
The Radiation Effects Group (RER) at Vanderbilt University was established in 2003 and is the largest program of its kind in the U.S. It is the only academic program actively involved in supporting the Department of Defense (DOD) in radiation effects for strategic applications, and one of very few programs involved in microelectronics research for space applications.