Last fall Margaret Miner was skimming a New York Times article about how the University of Wisconsin had changed the names of two university theaters, in Madison and Oshkosh, because they had been named for an alumnus associated with the Ku Klux Klan.
The name that had been removed from the theaters brought her up short: the renowned actor Fredric March. Reporter Tom Condon tells WSHU’s Ebong Udoma what happened next.