A panel discussion regarding the renaming of Dunn Hall to Unthank Hall will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in the Erb Memorial Union’s Redwood Auditorium, according to Around the O. The discussion, which will be moderated by UO President Michael Schill, consists of a civil rights historian, equity and social justice advocate and a member of the Black Student Task Force.

The decision to rename the building came last June after several months of protesting from members of the Black Student Task Force. The university spent over $23,000 to determine the fate of Deady and Dunn Halls, two buildings with controversial names. The university renamed Dunn Hall due to the fact that it was named after a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Deady, a delegate for Oregon’s Constitutional Convention, was in favor of slavery and supported a section of the state’s constitution which prohibited African-Americans from settling in the Oregon. Schill argued that Deady was a constitutional purist and therefore did not change the name.

Around the O quotes Schill as saying that the decision to rename Dunn Hall took the school on “an incredibly educational journey,” and he hopes that the panel discussion “will allow us to reflect on what worked and further what we learned.”

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