Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Forrest Hall

MTSU students to speak at Tennessee Historical Commission meeting about Forrest Hall

Featured Photo from Noah McLane Story by Noah McLane MTSU students will give public comment Friday, April, 19 at a Tennessee Historical Commission meeting in regard to MTSU’s appeal of a...

MTSU has initial hearing with Tennessee Historical Commission in second attempt to rename Forrest Hall

Featured Photo by Noah McLane Story by Noah McLane Middle Tennessee State University continued its efforts to change the name...

Why, in 2023, does MTSU still have a building named after a Confederate icon?

Story and photo by Noah McLane Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, still holds...

Renaming Forrest Hall: An Update

Story by Matthew Giffin | News Editor Four years after the Tennessee Historical Commission denied Middle Tennessee State University’s...

Board Backs McPhee in Renaming Forrest Hall

On Tuesday, the Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees voted unanimously to "support efforts to gain permission...

Letter to the Editor: Forrest Hall

Lamonteze Pannell, Junior, Electronic Media Communications In class we discussed how MTSU is facing an issue with the name of its ROTC Building currently...

Letter to the Editor: Forrest Hall

Rebekkah Barrett, Senior, Advertising Major I recently transferred to MTSU, and was originally very happy with the state of racial diversity and tolerance on campus....

Forrest Hall: How Wednesday’s meeting changed the game

Approximately 150 people gathered in the Lane-Agri Park center to voice their opinions on the potential name change of Forrest Hall on Wednesday. This...

MTSU names fifteen-member task force to determine the fate of ‘Forrest Hall’

Middle Tennessee State University announced the members of the "task force" formed to determine the fate of the name of Forrest Hall. This after a...

MTSU Students, Faculty and Alumni March to Change the Name of Forrest Hall

Middle Tennessee State University students, faculty and alumni gathered on Tuesday afternoon to protest the name of Forrest Hall. The ROTC building named after Confederate general...

MTSU Students Protest ‘Racist Figures,’ Rally Against Forrest Hall

Some MTSU students are joining the debate on offensive symbolism by requesting the name of Forrest Hall be changed. Forrest Hall was named after Nathan...