http://abc27.com/2015/12/08/students-rename-building-called-lynch-after-ex-president/
What about the Lynch School of Education at Boston College?
This stuff is getting really ridiculous now.
Maybe some of these kids have aspirations of working for The Onion some day.
This whole phenomenon of college kids making “demands” cracks me up.
Here’s my question: when did they name the building?? Was it not called “Lynch Memorial Hall” when they applied? When they accepted a spot in that school??
Why is it an issue NOW??? If the thought of a “Lynch Memorial Hall” was so intolerable to them, why on earth did they choose to attend that school??
Lynch is an old, very common Irish name.
Perhaps all schools should just number their buildings like MIT. Then they will just have to make sure they don’t use any numbers which are offensive to anyone. I guess they can hire an anthropologist to determine which numbers are objectionable to any culture.
Or all the very special, PC snowflakes can find a very special school to which they can find nothing objectionable.
I fully support this idea. Given that many US colleges themselves are named after people who owned slaves or benefitted from slave trade or did some other inappropriate things we also need to eliminate these names and renumber colleges like it is sometimes done with public schools in the big cities in the US and abroad. I can attest that this is very efficient. For example, I went to public high school #2. In my country they were rewriting history continuously, renaming cities, streets, universities, laws of physics, etc. but they did not have to rename public schools. I recommend to use USNWR ranking to renumber colleges.
One can only wonder what will happen when some of these students get a job in the real world and start making “demands” on their employer.
Come to think of it isn’t it time to rename St. Louis, St. Paul, San Antonio, Santa Fe and half the cities in California? Don’t those place names imply an endorsement of the Catholic faith?
Mathyone, some MIT buildings have names. Oh no. Simmons! Sounds like Summons! Might that make residents worried if they have old library books from high school they have forgotten to return? If they were not so busy with hacks, I’d worry about a sit-in.
These demands are just getting silly. And if they don’t like the name Lynch Hall, the students can use some imagination and maybe nickname the building “The Clyde” for that former school president’s first name.
Can u imagine the fight that would break out over who gets to be named College #1?
I find all numbers below 50 to be objectionable. They remind me of how old I am.
Come to think of it, nobody would want to be College #1 or (especially) College #2.
“College #2: Covered in it for 379 years.”
“College #2: Ivy isn’t the only thing on our walls.”
Yes, numbering the schools might lead to the top-10ish schools tanking their stats a bit in order to avoid the potty placements. 
Gonna have to change the name of the Goodrich C. White Hall (“White Hall”) at Emory.
It has overtones of White Privilege, or White Power.
It also is implicitly non-inclusive (where’s the Black Hall or Brown Hall on campus? You think it’s an accident there are none?).
Could definitely trigger trauma. Students should demand removal post haste and end the oppression.
Being neither good nor rich, I take offense at the name Goodrich too.
^^^Yes it is an oxymoron. Aren’t the 1%ers supposed to be evil?
If their job/field is unionized or is one where it’s in the heavily in the favor of the employees…they actually can make some “demands”.
One way of unionized employees doing so similar to student protests is a phenomenon commonly known as a walkout/strike. 
Another false rage incident. The “demands” of a handful of students at a small school – even one which on the face of it is mind-numbingly stupid — means WHAT? That young people sometimes ask for too much? Wow. What a revelation! Thank you SO much for enlightening me… This is akin to my 3 year old asking for a pony for her birthday.
^^ Nope, not “asking.” “DEMANDING.”
How very silly.
Most college buildings are named after 1 percenters – either major donors or past presidents of the college. Perhaps the only exceptions are those named after faculty members, who might not quite make it into the 1 percent because of their stingy salaries.
And I suppose a lot of the names might sound offensive in one way or another. For example, one could consider Cornell’s central square – Ho Plaza.