DeAndre Hopkins shouts out his high school instead of Clemson when introducing himself before primetime games.

This has clearly weighed on him for a while

Clemson’s Memorial Stadium sits just a literal stone’s throw away from a historic building called Fort Hill. The building, which is now a library and museum, was the former plantation home of John C. Calhoun, a former senator and vice president, and a staunch defender of slavery whose property was donated to build the college after his death. 

The school is named after Thomas Green Clemson, Calhoun’s son-in-law (and a former Confederate soldier), who inherited Calhoun’s plantation and designated the land to be used for an agricultural college in his will. But Calhoun’s name is still all over the campus, including on the Calhoun Honors College. 

A petition seeking to change the name of the college was signed by over 250 students in early 2019, but in the