Whether a school is named for an entity or a person, there are risks. Take Roger Williams University who will remove the name of Ralph R. Papitto, the former board chairman who used a racial slur, from the university’s law school. But they aren't alone, in 2005 Seton Hall University removed the name of L. Dennis Kozlowski, the felonious former chief executive of Tyco, from a building and a rotunda.
Who knows how long it might be before the the University of Iowa could remove the name of a certain influential donor from one of its buildings? Perhaps the rule of thumb should be to assign building numbers only, that way they would be easier to find on a map (and numbers are seldom involved in scandal).
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