The controversy rekindled in 2016-2017 with the publication of a letter, “Stop Celebrating a White Supremacist” in the October 4, 2016, "Iowa State Daily" and a presentation at the March 2017 Iowa State University Conference on Race and Ethnicity (ISCORE). The movement continued to gain momentum as the university experienced several racist incidents in 2019-2020 and the country embarked on a national conversation about race in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis. On July 9, 2020, Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen announced the creation of a committee to develop a policy and process for renaming buildings and other honorifics on campus.