OSU names new dorm after its first African-American male graduate | OregonLive.com: When Bill Tebeau showed up at Oregon State in 1943, he couldn’t get a dorm room because of the color of his skin. That didn’t stop the African-American from enrolling and graduating with a degree in chemical engineering.
Seventy years later, Oregon State University will name its new $28 million dorm Tebeau Hall in honor of its first African-American male graduate.
Today there are laws against denying people housing, but in the 1940s, the culture on campus was different.
