LSU Student groups want to rename more buildings - OT called it

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Now that Confederate names have been stripped from one LSU street and two buildings are slated to be torn down, a coalition of student groups wants to change the names on two of the more prominent buildings on the Baton Rouge campus.

Renew LSU on Friday filed the official papers requesting that university administrators change the name of Murphy J. Foster Hall, which sits near the bell tower and is home of the Museum of Natural History.

The group will watch how that renaming process works, then will set its sites on changing the name of the John M. Parker Agricultural Coliseum, said Savanah Dickinson, a spokeswoman for the student coalition.

“Murphy J. Foster and John Parker weren’t Confederates but they weren’t the most savory of individuals and certainly not worthy of such high profile recognition on the LSU campus,” Dickinson said.

Renew LSU is a coalition student groups, including the LSU chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, the LSU Student Government Senate, the Black Leadership Council, the Clarence Barney African American Cultural Center, the Society of African and African American Studies and the LSU chapter of Zeta Phi Beta sorority. Their aim is to have LSU better reflect the diverse student population.

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