Duke University's Aycock Hall Renamed, Following Months of Student Protest

By Julissa Catalan


On Monday, Duke University President Richard H. Broadhead announced to student leaders that Aycock Hall—a building named in honor of white supremacist Charles Brantley Aycock—will be renamed.

The freshmen dorm, which has been known as Aycock Hall for over a century, will now go back to its original name of East Residence Hall—the name for the dorms back when Duke University was called Trinity College.

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