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Stephanie Wiechmann
Ball State’s board has voted to remove John Schnatter’s name from its Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. Schnatter’s name will also be removed from a professorship funded by the same donation. Leading the meeting by phone, board chair Rick Hall says his statement on August 3rd to keep Schnatter‘s name on the business program was only part of a planned response. He had hoped to bring Schnatter to campus for conversations with students about race relations and critical thinking.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Hall says Schnatter was willing to come to campus, but.

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Rick Hall
President Mearns has advised us that such discussions with John and other good faith gestures would not be well-received or effective, as long as his name remains on the institute.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Ball State says it will also return money from the 2016 grant to the Schnatter Family Foundation. The vote wasn't unanimous, however. Jean Ann Harcourt of Milroy gave the lone no vote. She says she believes Schnatter’s comments were taken out of context.

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Jean Ann Harcourt
I'm a Christian who feels strongly about forgiveness. I feel John has apologized and asked for forgiveness.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
The vote came in a special meeting called the day before a faculty convocation, the traditional start to Ball State's new academic year. In Muncie, Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.