COLLEGE BUILDING RENAMED
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The name of a former university president and scientist who advocated for eugenics will be removed from a University of Maine building. The Portland Press Herald reports the University of Maine Board of Trustees voted Monday to remove Clarence Cook Little’s name from Little Hall on the campus at Orono. Little was the college’s president in the 1920s and a prominent genetics researcher. He also supported the eugenics movement, which advocated for the forced sterilizations of people viewed as undesirable. That often meant immigrants or people with mental illness. The vote followed a student petition and the recommendation of a task force to change the name.