Though Jim Clements thinks the world of former Clemson football players Deandre Hopkins and Deshaun Watson, he does not want people to be mislead on why Clemson’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted Friday to change the name of its honors college.
In a called emergency meeting the BOT voted to take the name of John C. Calhoun off of its honors college and replace it with Clemson University.
On Monday, Hopkins, along with Watson, started a petition to have Calhoun’s name removed from the honors college at Clemson because the former Vice President of the United States was a known slave owner.