The decision to cover up the name was temporary pending a final resolution from the university, Edwina Blackwell Clark, CSU spokesman, said Friday.
“That process may require some input from other university constituents,” Blackwell Clark said. “Nothing has been finalized, but we’ve started that process.”
University trustees at the historically black university will make the final decision of whether or not to remove the Cosby name from the Camille O. and William H. Cosby Mass Communications Center. Their next meeting is in September.
Cosby’s name still appears on directional signage to various campus locations.
The Cosby family has donated more than $1 million to the university for various needs. In 2007 and 2003, Cosby also helped raise money for the university in what was called the Cosby Challenge, which raised $4.1 million in general funds for the university.
Dayton CSU alumni chapter president, Richard Clay Dixon, said he did not want to comment because he did not have enough information about the university’s actions.
Caleb Brown, a 1970 CSU graduate and president of the Cincinnati Central State alumni chapter, said he trusted the president of the university, Cynthia Jackson-Hammond.
“If this is what the president thinks is best for the university, then it’s OK,” Brown said.
According to an Associated Press report this week, Cosby admitted in a 2005 deposition in a lawsuit filed against him that he gave quaaludes, to a 19-year-old woman before they had sex in Las Vegas in the 1970s. He also admitted to giving the drugs to unnamed others, the Associated Press reported.
More than two dozen women have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct over decades. He has not been charged in any of the cases and the statute of limitations has expired on most of them.
Cosby has previously portrayed the women as aspiring models and actresses trying to shake him down. He has not commented on the court documents.
The Associated Press had gone to court to compel the release of the documents.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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