It’s because he was a conservative. What other reason could there possibly be?

NBC News reports.

George Mason University Professors Oppose Naming Law School After Antonin Scalia

First it was ridicule, now it’s outrage.

George Mason University’s decision to rename its law school for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is facing an internal backlash, with dozens of professors and staff members signing a petition that warns the move would be harmful to the school and insulting to many students and employees.

The open letter, written by cultural studies professor Craig Willse, says “the values that Scalia affirmed from the bench do not reflect the values of our campus community.” It also criticizes the school for agreeing to the name change at the request of an anonymous $30 million donor without input from people who study or work there.

The signatories span a variety of departments at the Fairfax, Virginia-based university, but as of mid-afternoon Thursday none represented the law school.

The proposed new name, The Antonin Scalia Law School, is a revision of the original suggestion, The Antonin Scalia School of Law, which was widely mocked for its awkward acronym (ASSLaw).

The new name must be approved by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia before it becomes official.

Willse said in an interview that the online petition was an “organizing tool” to begin what he hopes will be a larger effort to block the name change.

“It’s a little bit of an open question what we do next,” he said.