Stanford is removing the name of Junipero Serra from campus properties because of his role in terrorizing and enslaving Native Americans. Should Stanford also remove the name of Leland Stanford because of crimes against the United States of America?

Posted by student, a resident of Stanford

>> Should Stanford also remove the name of Leland Stanford because of crimes against the United States of America?

If you really are a Stanford student, it is odd that you never noticed that the University is named after his son, Leland Stanford, Jr, who died of typhoid at age 15. Web Link Look at the University Seal. Web Link

Same poster is a lawyer in another thread, a climate scientist in a third, a substance abuse researcher in the car theft thread.

We are very lucky to be in the presence of such greatness.

Perhaps they could enlighten us on our current income inequality compared to the days of the robber barons.

Esteemed company. Did I mention that I am a Field recipient?

Inequality is worse than then, worse than the gilded age also. Trump's tax cut for billionaires wAs a slap in the face of his base.

^ You all lost me somewhere ...

quote: "He was an uneducated anti-intellectual, yet defined himself as "a technologist" and wanted Stanford University to thrive as a trade school. He played a major role in vaulting America into peak ascendancy, yet had few qualms bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars in the process (before going on to be a U.S. Senator)."

^^^ Leland Stanford has come back (via reincarnation) but on a far larger scale!

^^ "Leland Stanford has come back (via reincarnation) but on a far larger scale!"

Would that be Jeff Bezos?

Did Jeff Bezos use Federal Sept 11 money for his uptown hotel like Trump did?

FEMA hurricane money for an undamaged Mar a Lago?

”University to thrive as a trade school"

How many doctors, engineers, etc did Trump University create before it was shut down for fraud?