{"id":3557,"date":"2015-02-27T18:10:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/whats-in-a-name\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:34:27","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/paul-thomas-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16731 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/paul-thomas-5.jpg\" alt=\"paul-thomas\" width=\"195\" height=\"239\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 195px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 195\/239;\" \/><\/a>There has been a debate at Clemson University about whether the name of an iconic building on campus, Tillman Hall, should be changed. The building\u2019s namesake, Benjamin Tillman, was a former South Carolina governor (1890-94) and a well-known white supremacist. Furman education professor Paul Thomas weighed in on the debate in a post on his blog, The Becoming Radical, which was then published on the \u201cAnswer Sheet\u201d of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2015\/02\/26\/why-names-matter-the-fight-at-clemson-over-iconic-university-building-named-after-racist-governor\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a debate at Clemson University about whether the name of an iconic building on campus, Tillman Hall, should be changed. The building\u2019s namesake, Benjamin Tillman, was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}