"Vanderbilt Agrees to Leave the Word 'Confederate' on a Building, Ending a 3-Year Fight"
...Vanderbilt dropped "Confederate" from the dormitory's official name in 2002, after more than 20 years of debate and efforts to create a more "welcoming environment" on the campus, said Michael J. Schoenfeld, a university spokesman. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, which partly financed the building, sued Vanderbilt for breach of contract when it decided to permanently remove the name from the dormitory's pediment.
..."The building is a memorial for the Confederate soldiers, and our great-great-grandmothers literally saved nickels and dimes for this. Yes, slavery was bad, but it wasn't the only issue in the War Between the States. You can't erase pages of history just because a lot of bad things happened"...