WASHINGTON, D.C.: Princeton University said Saturday it was removing the name of president Woodrow Wilson from its public policy school and a residential college, calling the former US leader a racist. The Ivy League school’s board of trustees “concluded that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must stand firmly against racism in all its forms,” university President Christopher Eisgruber said in a statement. Wilson served two terms as US president, from 1913 to 1921. He was the founding father of the League of Nations, a forerunner of the United Nations, and embodied the end of American isolationism.
In this file photo taken on Jan. 19, 1919 shows British Prime Minister Lloyd George (left), Italian Council President Vittorio Orlando (second left), French council President Georges Clemenceau (second right) and US President Woodrow Wilson attending the oppening day of the Conference for Peace in Paris. At 3:50 pm on June 28, 1919 crowds erupted in joy and salvos of celebratory gunfire rang out: the Treaty of Versailles had just been signed. World War 1 was finally over. FILE PHOTO