Posted on 05/24/2021 9:57:38 AM PDT by JstABrdPstr
The President’s Advisory Committee on University History is inviting members of the University of Michigan community to provide feedback on the committee’s preliminary recommendation to remove Fielding H. Yost’s name from Yost Ice Arena.
The committee’s preliminary recommendation comes after a year of study by the panel of university historians. The request to remove the name was made by several members of the campus community through the university’s established process for reviewing historical names on buildings.
University community members have until June 7 to share feedback on the recommendation through a new online portal. A umich.edu email address is required to submit comments. Feedback also may be submitted by email or U.S. mail.
The committee completed an in-depth review of Yost’s tenure as head football coach and athletic director at the university from 1901-41. The report asserts that Yost’s contributions to U-M football and athletics were inequitably placed above the “profoundly deep and negative impact he had on people of color.”
A key fact in the recommendation is Yost’s role in benching famous African American football star Willis Ward in 1934 in response to a refusal by Georgia Tech to play Michigan at home if an African American were allowed to play. But the committee reported that this was symptomatic of larger racial problems in the athletic department while Yost served as coach and athletic director.
As coach of the Michigan football team from 1901-23, 1925 and 1926, Yost gained acclaim for his “point a minute” teams and laid the groundwork for the program’s winning tradition. As the university’s athletic director from 1921-41, Yost conceived and oversaw the building of Michigan Stadium. He retired in 1941 and died in Ann Arbor in 1946.
The Field House was named for Yost in 1923 based in part on a campaign led by the Michigan Daily. The facility was remodeled in 1973 and renamed Yost Ice Arena.
“We recommend unanimously that the name of Fielding H. Yost be removed from the Yost Ice Arena,” the committee’s preliminary report reads.
The committee indicated it is posting its preliminary summary of recommendations and the historical analysis online to collect feedback during an unusual year on the campus when many people were working and learning remotely.
An overall summary of the community’s feedback will be included as part of the committee’s final recommendation that will be shared with President Mark Schlissel. The president then has the authority to accept, reject or modify the committee’s recommendation. Only the Board of Regents has the authority to remove an honorific building name.
https://pacouh.umich.edu/yost-name-review/
As a lifelong fan and long-time Michigan season ticket holder in both basketball and football, it is becoming harder and harder for me to want to keep giving this institution money. The only reason to stay is if we let them win without a fight, we lose. I choose to fight.
I’m fan for 58 years. If they remove the Yost name I for one will never again root for UM and I will never spend another penny at UM.
Yost Hockey ticket prices and availability made me stop going quite some decades ago.
I already don’t support UoMi through direct contributions nor Mich. State taxes anymore, so I don’t care what they call the place.
“Michigan” is likely some wypipos’ corruption of a pure indigenous pipos’ word/name anyway and should also go, for consistency.
So the “profoundly deep and negative impact he had on people of color” was that he benched a black guy when the other team refused to play with him on the field - back in the 1930’s. Oh the huge manatee.
The fact that he, according to Wikipedia, “was among the first coaches to allow Jewish players on his teams” was not enough to offset this “profoundly deep and negative impact.”
*ripped off from The Blues Brothers, I Don't Know
FDR was a racist. He did nothing to stop Jim Crow laws in the south or put an end to desegregation. What major civil rights legislation did he propose during his twelve years in office? I can’t think of one. Most Southerners said at that time he was sympathetic to their point of views on race. Think we’ll see anything with FDR’s name be changed or demand to be taken down?
That’s not all FDR did... and yet the woke cancel crowd worships at his altar. How about the jewish refugee ship that was refused by Cuba and then by FDR and then Canada- returned to Nazi Germany and half of those returning sent to concentration camps.
Something that came to mind- and not surprised if nothing is ever said against the FDR “second bill of rights” which are not rights whatsoever.
Yes,
FDR was very racist. His major support was from the Democratic South. And he returned the favors.
The Democrats are always concerned about disparate impact in everything except abortions. Doesn’t that make them all racist?
GO BLUE
to hell
MSE ‘66
The guy was a sinner. Can’t name anything after a sinner.
Blessed Mary Hockey Stadium.
Jesus H. Christ Hockey Arena
Are two that come to mind.
Martin Luther King jr and Ghandi were both sinners. I am too so leave my name alone.
No mercy among the mercilessly tolerant.
Disgusting. I still want to know when Yale University is going to change it’s name away from that slave trader?
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