Yale University President Peter Salovey announced on Saturday that scrapping the name of Calhoun College and renaming it in honor of Grace Murray Hopper, a 1934 graduate and United States Navy rear admiral who made pivotal advances in computer science. ''The decision to change a college's name is not one we take lightly,'' Salovey wrote in an email to the campus community. The social commentator Roger Kimball was among those who recalled Yale's dark past pointing out that ''In the great racism sweepstakes, John Calhoun was an amateur. ''''Far more egregious was Elihu Yale, the philanthropist whose benefactions helped found the university. Among its Indian and Indian-origin alumni are former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's daughter Amrit Singh and former finance secretary Rakesh Mohan.

Source: Times of India February 12, 2017 16:30 UTC