Vanderbilt set to pay $1.2m to remove ‘confederate’ from campus dorm

In a move that shows that the south and its venerable institutions are warming to the idea to change, Vanderbilt University is changing the name of its Confederate Memorial Hall and it’s paying the United Daughters of the Confederacy a hefty price to do so.
The historic campus in Nashville, Tenn., has been trying to get rid of the name on the dorm building since 2002, citing that it invoked racial segregation. But the Daughters of the Confederacy, who originally donated $50,000 in 1933 tow