Change Yale University To ‘Hale’ University, Online Petition Says
Elihu Yale, namesake of Yale University, sits in the center of this group of British gentlemen while a younger dark-complexioned slave with a collar around his neck, at right, looks on. Yale University owns this portrait, but Yale officials were uneasy enough about it in 2007 to move it from a prominent position near the university president's office to a less prominent position, according to the Yale Daily News.
An online petition is seeking to change the name of the nation's third oldest college from Yale to "Hale."
The idea is to replace a controversial colonial corporate figure who oversaw slave trading with the rhymes-with-Yale name of an American hero who died during the Revolutionary War.
