Columbia taking slave-owning doctor’s name off campus dorm

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University is taking the name of its medical school’s founder off of a campus dormitory because he owned slaves and once advertised a reward for the return of one who ran away. Columbia President Lee Bollinger told students and faculty in a letter Friday that the university was not erasing Samuel Bard’s contributions to the school but that it became clear amid a global reckoning on racism and racist legacies that having a dorm named for him was not appr