Goodbye Jefferson Davis.

The Statesman reports.

UT students vote to remove Jefferson Davis statue from campus

Renewing an on-again, off-again effort to rid campus of a handful of monuments of the Confederacy, the University of Texas student government has passed a resolution to remove a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Gary Susswein, a UT spokesman, said that university administrators will review the resolution, which student government approved on Tuesday, and possibly take action.

Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu, the president and vice president-elect who drafted the resolution on a serious note amid a largely satirical campaign, said that Davis is a symbol of slavery.

“Statues are meant to glorify individuals and what they stood for and Jefferson Davis stood for some really abominable ideas that not only offend students but affected the groups many students identify with,” said Rotnofsky, a Plan II Honors and linguistic major. “It’s a slap to their face.”

The statue of the president of the Confederate States sits on the northern point of the South Mall of campus under a canopy of live oak trees.

Susswein said that he can’t remember a statue ever being removed from the campus, although it has been proposed in the past. The university instead added statues.