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Iowa State University’s Catt Hall -- honoring the women’s suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt, accused by some of holding racistviews -- will permanently retain its name after an ISU name-removal committee voted 11-4 to keep it.

Carrie Chapman Catt’s name on Catt Hall did not gain enough support from a university committee to recommend its removal after an initial vote of 6-9 failed to meet the two-thirds threshold needed. The Iowa State University Review Committee for Consideration of Removing Names from University Property began its public comment period Thursday and will...