The University System of Georgia’s governing board on Monday rejected the recommendation of an advisory group to rename 75 buildings and colleges on campuses across the state that honor individuals who supported slavery, racial segregation and other forms of oppression.

Among the buildings at issue are more than two dozen at the flagship University of Georgia. Aderhold Hall, according to the advisory group’s report, is named for a 20th-century president of the university, Omer Clyde “O.C.” Aderhold, who was a “committed segregationist.”

Also on the Athens campus, according to the report, are Lipscomb Hall, named for Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, a university chancellor in the 19th century who was an enslaver and author of an anti-immigrant tract, and Candler Hall, named for Allen Daniel Candler, a Confederate Army veteran who later became governor of Georgia and advocated for segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans. [MORE]