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NASHVILLE, March 30 (UPI) -- Members of a youth group with followers on seven U.S. college campuses say their organization is focused on protecting Western civilization. Trevor Williams and Devin Saucier said they founded a Vanderbilt University chapter of the Youth for Western Culture in order to protect the Western world from corrupting influences and not to promote racism as some of the group's critics suggest, The (Nashville) Tennessean said Monday. "We're not racists," Saucier, a Vanderbilt sophomore like Williams, said.

Vanderbilt's ongoing litigation with the United Daughters of the Confederacy over the changing of the name of Confederate Memorial Hall to Memorial Hall is an example of a trend that is taking place in schools across the South. As a Feb. 12 article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution pointed out, in addition to Vanderbilt, schools in the Southeast such as Sewanee: The University of the South; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and the University of Texas at Austin are all choosing to remove Confederate symbols and Southern traditions to better compete in attracting the nation's best and most...

<p>An 18-year-old freshman at Vanderbilt University is being questioned by the FBI after he was caught early this morning trying to enter the U.S. Courthouse downtown through rear doors near the loading dock, Metro police said.</p> <p>Jared W. Whaley, whose address is listed in a police report as the Vanderbilt campus, was caught at 3 a.m. near the federal courthouse at 801 Broadway, Metro police said.</p>