Wednesday, April 24, 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...

Forrest Hall: The Evolution of Middle Tennessee’s Mascot

Photo by Sarah Grace Taylor//Managing Editor Story by Devin Ross // Staff Writer His name is on a building, but once upon a time, Nathan Bedford...

An examination of the Forrest Hall Task Force

Photo by Sarah Grace Taylor // Managing Editor Following the influx of students and faculty demanding a name change of Forrest Hall in 2015, the...

Timeline: 2015-16 Forrest Hall Protests

MTSU students, faculty, alumni and organizations have protested the name of Forrest Hall off-and-on for the last half century. Most recently, the issue became...

How Forrest Hall Could Receive a New Name

Even if the Forrest Hall task force recommends to rename the building, the decision would only be the first step in the process. Such...

Talented Tenth seeks change starting with Forrest Hall

Student protesters calling for the renaming of Forrest Hall began meeting last October, which was appropriate, being the tenth month and the group adopting...

Letter from the Editor: Forrest Hall

Whether you realize it or not, history is in the making right now at MTSU. This spring, a 16-person task force made up of...