The mascot was chosen by students in 1922, but it’s unclear when the nickname “Rhett” came to be widely used, Boston University President Robert Brown said in a letter to the university ...

Amid a national on reckoning on race, Boston University will consider whether to rename its mascot, “Rhett,” due to the name’s ties to “Gone with the Wind,” the novel … ...

Boston University is considering changing the name of its mascot over an apparent link to “the Confederacy, slavery and sexual assault,” school president Robert A. Brown wrote in a letter to ...