The RLM Building is named after racist Robert Lee Moore. Moore's record as a teacher of mathematics has been tarnished by his prejudice treatment of Black students. Most of Moore's career was spent in a racially segregated part of the United States. African-American students were prohibited from even enrolling at the University of Texas until the late 1950s, and Moore himself was strongly in favor of segregation. After the University of Texas began admitting African-American students, he refused to allow them into his classes, even for mathematics graduate students such as Vivienne Malone-Mayes. He told another Black mathematics student, Walker E. Hunt, "you are welcome to take my course but you start with a C and can only go down from there.” On one occasion he walked out of a talk by a student, his academic grandchild, after discovering that the speaker was African-American.

Moore was also known for repeatedly claiming that female students were inferior to male students, and, though less pronounced than his racism, was he was also anti-Semitic. 

In 2018 the University renamed the College of Liberal Arts building after the Pattons and their $20 million donation. The University of Texas claims “what starts here changes the world,” and frankly, to quote the interim president, “ those starts and changes don’t just happen. They are the result of actions — large and small, as individuals and in teams — by our students, faculty, staff and alumni.” 

We are calling on you, Interim President Jay Hartzell to take action.