Duke Will Change Name of Building That Honored Racist

By Scott Jaschik. Duke University's board on Saturday voted to remove Julian Carr's name from a campus building that houses the history department. The department and others had pushed for removal of the name because Carr, while a donor to the university, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1900 on a white supremacist platform. More...