The University of Florida has changed the names of its library study rooms that referenced historical figures, including one called the “Karl Marx Group Study Room.”
The university made the change after it received media attention noting Karl Marx’s name inscribed outside the door of a study room within the school’s George A. Smathers Libraries.
“Given current events in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, we determined it was appropriate to remove the name of Karl Marx that was placed on a group study room at the University of Florida in 2014,” Hessy Fernandez, the school’s director of strategic communications, told Campus Reform.
Earlier this month, Campus Reform published a photo of Karl Marx’s name inscribed on the nameplate that described him as a “philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary critic of all that exists.”
Marx was also credited as being the “founder of scientific socialism.”
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“The unique extent of the influence of Marx’s materialist explanation of the workings of society, economics and history, inevitably saw Marxist theory extend its influence to literary criticism,” the plaque read.
The university has reportedly since removed all nameplates referencing historical figures, opting to assign each of the 14 study rooms a number instead.
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Other study rooms were named after figures such as Ben Franklin, William Shakespeare, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Martin Luther King Jr., Jane Austen, and Mahatma Gandhi.
