Why don’t the students just embrace the fact that Wilson was a progressive?

NBC News reports.

Princeton University to Keep Woodrow Wilson’s Name Despite Outcry

Woodrow Wilson’s name will remain on Princeton University’s public policy school, despite calls to remove it because the former U.S. president was a segregationist, the university announced Monday.

“Princeton must openly and candidly recognize that Wilson, like other historical figures, leaves behind a complex legacy of both positive and negative repercussions, and that the use of his name implies no endorsement of views and actions that conflict with the values and aspirations of our times,” the Wilson Legacy Review Committee said in a statement, according to the university’s communications office.

Princeton was challenged to take a deeper look into Wilson’s life in the fall, when a group of students raised questions about his racist views and their impact on his policy. The Black Justice League held a 32-hour sit-in inside the Princeton president’s office, demanding Wilson’s name be removed from programs and buildings, including the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, and for other changes to be made on campus to make the university more diverse and inclusive.

“The process that the Princeton Trustees undertook to understand Woodrow Wilson and how we name institutions and buildings across campus was fair and robust,” Cecilia Rouse, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, told NBC News.

“Importantly, they understood that it was important to address and reinvigorate the issue of diversity and inclusion across the campus. I wholly support this attention to diversity and inclusion, because Princeton — like all Universities — flourishes when many voices and opinions are embraced,” she said.