event,” Freeman said. “I think her leadership and her vision about the Tulsa campus has been really helpful for the city of Tulsa as well as for Oklahoma State. On a local level at the Stillwater campus, I’m grateful to be able to work for and with Dean Glen Krutz, who is willing to allocate resources and support for this project. This could be underrepresented under different leadership. The dean has been really helpful in finding ways we can work together and finding resources to make it happen.” The university continues to support these social changes. This summer, OSU moved to change the name of CAS buildings Murray Hall and North Murray. William Murray, a former governor of Oklahoma, was a bigot known to use racial slurs openly, including in his campaign slogans. The building’s name was under debate for years, but in June, the Board of Regents took decisive action, unanimously approving the removal of Murray’s name from campus. The project may also include an app to be developed by computer science students that will coincide with Thomas’ mapping work. The goal is to create geofencing around the Greenwood district for people to be able to see pictures of previous building and theater students’ reenactments. “OSU has made a lot of strides to bridge the gap of social injustice from the renaming of Murray Hall to erecting the statue of Nancy Randolph Davis, OSU’s first African American graduate,” Freeman said. “There’s still a long way to go, but with this project and the help of our OSU leadership, I think we are making strides in the right direction to recognize the descendants of the race massacre and African American students on campus.” Greenwood Rising, a new history center, is being built at Archer and Greenwood. This rendering of the center is looking south from that intersection. Sean Thomas Craig Freeman OSU COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 15
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