The Forrest Hall Debate that was held Wednesday night at the Lane Agri Park in Murfreesboro turned into a protest as a handful of local MTSU students and residents chanted "Black Lives Matter." Forrest Hall is the name of the ROTC building on the Middle Tennessee State University Campus.

Fifteen people, including state Sen. Bill Ketron and State Historian Carroll Van West, are serving as members of the task force that will consider whether to change the name of MTSU's Forrest Hall.

The university announced this past June (2015) that it would engage the community on the name of the campus building that houses MTSU's Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program that is named after Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. The decision to discuss a name change came after a mass shooting at a historically black South Carolina church that prompted a national discussion about Confederate iconography on public property.

Forrest, a Confederate officer praised for his tactical methods, has also drawn attention because of his early ties to the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

So far, no decision has been reached on changing or keeping the name of the ROTC building. Dr. Sidney A. McPhee, university president, charged the committee of 15 to reach their conclusion and make their report by the end of March, 2016.

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