While Prof. Lowenstam would be a worthy namesake, and would honor our  neglected Humanities  program, I would suggest a more appropriate name for this  "Dunn" residence hall would be that of Mabel Byrd, the UO's first black student,  who was herself  forbidden  to live in a campus residence hall:

  "After graduating from Washington High School in Portland in 1914, Mabel Byrd made history as the first African American enrolled at the University of Oregon. Byrd matriculated at UO in 1917 as a student majoring in economics, and spent two years on the campus prior to transferring to the University of Washington in 1919.

While at the University of Oregon, Byrd was the only black resident of Eugene. Because school and state policy prohibited her from living in the campus dormitories because of her race, Byrd lived in the home of history professor Joseph Schafer. There she worked as a domestic for the Schafer family while attending the university." [UO Untold Stories]