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Board of Regents endorses renaming MTSU’s Forrest Hall (TN)
By Associated Press
Published: June 27, 2016, 3:16 am
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) – The Tennessee Board of Regents has endorsed renaming a Middle Tennessee State University building named in honor of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1958 ...
The Regents’ Friday vote allows MTSU to petition the Tennessee Historical Commission, which must approve the change by a two-thirds vote.
Previously such a renaming required only a majority vote, but state lawmakers changed that earlier this year ...
http://wjhl.com/2016/06/27/board-of-regents-endorses-renaming-mtsus-forrest-hall/