Given the virtual all-white history of the UO, progress in diversity was needed but bound to be difficult.  The Black Student Task Force and the administration deserve respect for what they accomplished this year.  However a serious historic error led the students  in to believing that Deady had been a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle,  so they asserted all "KKK related" names should be removed, with Deady's first..

However, as this  Jan. 2016 ODE item shows, they were wrong about Deady and the KGC:
" A previous version of this article stated that UO would rename buildings named after people connected with racism; UO is simply reviewing buildings for renaming. Due to a reporting error, a previous version of this article also incorrectly linked Deady with the group The Secret Knights of the Golden Circle, a precursor to the Klu Klux Klan. There is no evidence for the link. The article has also been updated with more details of Deady’s life and attitudes toward race."