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Students attempt C.C. Little rename 
with sign recognizing Black alum

Radfun claims building name change to honor first Black female student at ‘U’

Students 
attempted 
to 

rename the C.C. Little Science 
Building 
Sunday 
night 
by 

covering the sign with a new 
sign that read “Mary Henrietta 
Graham,” the first Black woman 
to attend and graduate from the 
University of Michigan. The 
University has since removed 
the sign.

The 
renaming 
attempt 

followed 
an 
LSA 
Student 

Government 
panel 
that 

discussed removing the name 
of former University president, 
C.C. Little, who worked in 
eugenics 
primarily 
against 

women of color. Protesters 
took to the panel and voiced 

their frustration over the lack 
of University buildings named 
after women of color and the 
honoring of a man who aided 
eugenics.

The 
University 
group 

Radfun, 
which 
describes 

itself as “radical anticapitalist 
deviants & forum of united 
nonconformists” posted a photo 
of the sign on Facebook with the 
caption “Our buildings should 
be named by us, and never 
named after the Oppressor!”

In 
an 
email 
statement, 

Radfun 
called 
for 
campus 

community members to start 
referring to it as the Mary 
Henrietta 
Graham 
Science 

Building.

“The 
decision 
for 
this 

name was based on research 
and 
support 
provided 
by 

several groups at UM that are 
implicated in the fight for social 
justice,” Radfun wrote. “We 
can speak to why our collective 
decided to support the name of 
MHG, which was because there 

has been a massive outcry 
against the naming of the CC 
Little building. Renaming it 
ourselves and after a woman 
of color makes the most 
sense because reclaims the 
right of marginalized to 
UM.”

The 
University 
hasn’t 

commented officially on the 
sign or its removal.

“We don’t know why the 

sign was removed, but it 
honestly make (sic) sense 
that they did because they 
only care about student 
dissent if it works for the 
brand 
they’re 
trying 
to 

protect,” Radfun stated.

The 
petition 
circling 
to 

rename the building has just 
came to over 1,000 signatures.

CARLY RYAN

Daily Staff Reporter

We can speak 

to why our 
collective 
decided to 
support the 

name of MHG, 

which was 

because there 

has been a 

massive outcry 

against the 
naming of 

the CC Little 

building. 

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Live, laugh, eat. Food trucks at the 
Grove every Mon. & Thurs. from 
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so umich cars to protect the diag 
from msu spray painting it but 
doesn’t give a f*** if a white dude 
pisses on the diag covered in 
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Zingerman’s 
@zingermans

Zingerman’s Bakehouse 
celebrates 25 years with a 
new cookbook -- our book 
debut party is tomorrow!

Peace Corps Company 
Day

WHAT: Come learn about 
roles in the Peace Corps at this 
company day. 

WHO: Engineering Career 
Resource Center

WHEN: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WHERE: Duderstadt Center, 
Duderstadt Connector

Optiver Tech Talk

WHAT: U-M alum Alex Tikin 
will explain how he transferred 
what he learned here to his job as 
a softwaredesigner for Optiver, a 
proprietary trading firm. 

WHO: Engineering Career 
Resource Center

WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

WHERE: Duderstadt Center, 
Media Center

Library of the Future 
Design Challenge: 
Physical Design

WHAT: RSVP to this challenge 
activity where participants will 
design a library for the future. 

WHO: University Library

WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

WHERE: Shapiro Library, Design 
Lab

Art and Archive panel 
discussion with The 
Hinterlands and Design 
99

WHAT: This will be a 
conversation with Detroit-based 
performance art group and a 
Detroit art collective. 

WHO: Institute for the 
Humanities

WHEN: 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.

WHERE: 202 S. Thayer St

2017 Fall Career Expo

WHAT: Over 90 companies 
will be the the University to 
recruit for summer and full-time 
opportunities. Come to this first-
step event to find out more.
WHO: University Career Center
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union 

English Honors Program

WHAT: Come learn about the 
English Honors program and its 
application process. 

WHO: Department of English 
Language and Literature

WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

WHERE: Angell Hall, Room 
3154

MDP Project Preview 
Night

WHAT: This event will showcase 
each of the more than 25 MDP 
research projects looking for 
student involvement.

WHO: Michigan Engineering
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WHERE: Tishman Hall, BBB

57th Annual Organ 
Conference Student 
Recital: Sarah Simko

WHAT: Sarah Simko will 
perform an organ concert in 
memory of Prof. Robert Glasgow.

WHO: School of Music, Theater 
& Dance

WHEN: 10 a.m.

WHERE: Hill Auditorium

ARNOLD ZHOU/Daily

Moms Demand Action march in support of 
increased gun laws Monday. 

MOMS M ARCH
The University of Michigan’s chapter 

of College Republicans painted the 
Rock Sunday night to send a message of 
solidarity to the minority groups that have 
been targeted by recent hate crimes on 
campus.

Two weeks ago, three Black students in 

West Quad Residence Hall had their door 
name tags vandalized with racial slurs. 
That same weekend, other racist graffiti 
were discovered on a downtown mural, 
and posters reading “Free Dylann Roof” 
were found throughout campus. In the 
weeks before that, anti-Latino sentiments 
were found painted on the Rock, and a 
local skate park was vandalized with racist 
and anti-Semitic graffiti.

Last week, several protests occurred 

throughout campus as a call to action 
and to draw attention to these events. 
Protesters blocked the C.C. Little bus 
station, flooded the room where a panel 
spoke about changing the name of the C.C. 
Little Science Building and sat with School 
of Public Health master’s candidate Dana 
Greene as he kneeled on the Diag for nearly 
24 hours.

University President Mark Schlissel 

wrote in a statement that he supports 
Greene’s right to kneel.

“I share with many the belief that 

our nation does not always live up to its 
highest ideals, including the equal rights 
we hold dear,” Schlissel wrote. “To me, the 
American Flag represents many things, 
including those very rights. I support 
(Greene’s) right to engage in peaceful 
protest.”

Like many other organizations on 

campus, the club paints the Rock every 
year, according to LSA junior Amanda 
Delekta, vice president of College 
Republicans. However, the group decided 
to be a little more purposeful with its 
paintbrushes this year, in light of recent 
campus incidents.

“This year with the rhetoric on campus 

and some of the hateful incidents that have 
occurred, we wanted to create a really 
clear message of what our group stands for 
and disassociate from some of the other 
groups that tend to get lumped in with us,” 
Delekta said. 

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