Unwanted Art: Old Trapper’s Lodge

Pierce takes another step to remove statues

the academic senate and Pierce College Council meetings, yet there was nothing being done. We recently had someone who’s interested and wants to take the statues.”

Brian Walsh, a history professor at Pierce, has been another faculty member pushing for the removal of the Old Trapper’s Lodge statues from campus. He and McKeever have long awaited seeing the removal process.

“The summer of 2020, and the protests, you see statues coming down without waiting for the paperwork,” Walsh said. “It seems that now the winds are on our back, now’s the time these things need to go. I know the board recently approved donating them to the Valley Relics Museum, so we just want to make sure the process goes as smoothly as possible.”

Pierce’s interim president, Aracely Aguiar, was able to shed better light on the issue in regards to the removal.