About Not Unmindful
What is Not Unmindful and why do we care?
This is a focal point for alumni who would like to see Washington & Lee change its name and make changes to make the campus more welcoming to those students that have not historically felt that. Removing Lee and all the baggage the his name brings, however, is only our first goal, but without achieving this, everything else we seek will be for nought.
First, we want the University to change its name, removing Lee from the equation, removing that millstone around the University's neck. But that is only the beginning of the work we must do. We must support efforts to address the systemic racism and ostracization of the different (i.e., non-white, non-elite) at the University to make a truly world-class institution.
Without all of these efforts, the University will return its dark ages academically. We are boldly thinking about how the entirety of the University community can stride boldly and proudly into the future.
Great strides have been made, but there is a lot of work still to be done.
Non Incautus Futuri.
