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July 17, 2007

RWU professor calls for law school name change

A longtime writing professor at Roger Williams University who is also a graduate of the university’s law school is calling for the removal of Ralph R. Papitto’s name from the law school.

Mel Topf, who has taught at Roger Williams since 1969, when the Bristol campus opened, has written to University President Roy J. Nirschel, asking him to introduce a Board of Trustees resolution to remove Papitto’s name from the law school. Read his letter.
Topf is president of the university’s faculty union but stresses that he is not writing in that capacity but “simply as an RWU faculty member of many years and as a graduate of the law school.”

“In both capacities I am frankly embarrassed to have any building or school named after such a person as Mr. Papitto,” Topf wrote to Nirschel.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson, with reports from Journal staff writer Jennifer D. Jordan

Posted by Kate Bramson  at 2:26 PM | Permalink

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