When outgoing Prairie View A&M President Julius W. Becton Jr. asked students at the historically black Texas university if there were any ongoing concerns to be addressed before his tenure ended, students brought up the subject of the school's motto. Students objected that the last word of the Latin phrase recercare, doctrina, servitium, meaning "service," was a code word for slavery. The university agreed to phase in a new, improved motto into its stationary.

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