
“The new naming caused some branding issues for the Outdoor Engagement Center, because people didn’t necessarily associate Harry Reid with outdoor engagement," Jennifer Burt, an SUU spokeswoman, told The Huffington Post. "It was impacting a center that had already been functioning and thriving. The name itself, it just caused some identity issues.”
SUU was also facing pressure from some Cedar City residents, who raised at least $40,000 to have Reid’s name removed from the center, according to the St. George Daily Spectrum.
“This is a conservative base in Southern Utah and many people in southern Nevada also feel the same way,” Cedar City Councilman Paul Cozzens told the paper. “These people in Nevada do not espouse to Reid’s political philosophies, and they told me they would not support the university or send any more of their children there, and this was coming from people who had already sent children to SUU, so long as Harry Reid’s name remained.”
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