Plantation Room sign sparks concern on campus

Georgia Southern University officials, specifically the Dean of Students Office and Multicultural Student Center, plan to meet today with students leading the effort to change the sign and symbolism used by Rumrunners Plantation Room, a bar and a concert hall near campus. students is Jordin Hall, whose petition on the website www.change.org had attracted 1,840 supporters as of 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Hall, 20, a psychology major, started the petition on Feb. 11, seeking the company to change its name. She and other students object that the Plantation Room name and associated symbols make African Americans feel unwelcome. On the panel, two images of the pre-2001 Georgia state flag – the flag most of which was the Confederate battle emblem – cross swords, which serve as staffs, to form the “A” in “Planting”.