COLORADO SPRINGS – A former Colorado College president was accused more than a century ago of perpetrating sexual improprieties on female students and staff as well as professors’ wives. Now, the college has taken his name off one of its dormitories.
The Gazette reports Colorado College’s Slocum Hall, named after former school president William F. Slocum, is now known as South Hall, and its commons area is South Commons.
In a unanimous recent vote, 26 Colorado College board of trustee members decided to remove Slocum’s name from the dorm and rescind the honorary degree the school bestowed on him in 1917.
The board said in a statement that “there is overwhelming and uncontroverted evidence that Slocum engaged in instances of sexual misconduct and egregious sexual assault while he was president of the college.”
